World of £1.52 books

Bookmooch was a fine tip-off. The premise is simple: earn points by posting people books, and spend those points on receiving books. It works too!

So far I've cleared a half-dozen of the more unreadable tomes off my shelf because some more brave souls reckon they can penetrate the turgid prose. It costs £1.52 to post one or two typical paperback books second class, so £7.60 later the damn things were finally out of my life.

Now, obviously I could have just thrown the books away, but instead I've earned points that can be exchanged for books. A quick cut and paste of my Amazon recommendations into my Bookmooch wishlist, and two books pop out. So a quick click-click and they're in the post at no cost to me. Rather surprisingly, given the post around here, they arrive too.

So that's £7.60 spent to get a couple of books that normally cost about £8 each, and the option to claim four more that might take my fancy. Result!