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Nov. 29th, 2016
Book exchange
Nov. 29th, 2016 12:31 pmOver on Facebook there's a meme going around. This is the original:
"WANTED: Participants for a book-loving social experiment. Comment if you want to participate and I’ll send you details. What do you have to do? Buy your favourite book and send it to a stranger (I’ll send you a name and address.) You will only be sending one book to one person. The number of books you will receive depends on how many participants there are. The books that will show up at your door are the other people’s much loved stories #SaveTheCulture #BookExchange #LongLiveBooks"
In all the posts I've seen of it, there have been people expressing reservations about the pyramid nature of the scheme, and I share those. So I fixed it.
If you want to play, I made a swap over on Elfster. This means that I don't know who each person gets, it's entirely mystery. Buy a book, one you love, as a present, and send it. Someone else will do the same for you, and hopefully it'll be a way of trying something new.
https://www.elfster.com/exchange/view/21629452/59c345/ is the signup link, I put in a sign up deadline of 2nd January and an exchange date of 18th January, so shopping can wait until after the busy period and there is hopefully a nice thing at a time when lots of people are feeling a bit glum. Hopefully, because the idea is that it's something you love, it'll be a bit easier than trying to work out what other people like!
ps this might get international, so let me know if you don't want to send outside your country.
"WANTED: Participants for a book-loving social experiment. Comment if you want to participate and I’ll send you details. What do you have to do? Buy your favourite book and send it to a stranger (I’ll send you a name and address.) You will only be sending one book to one person. The number of books you will receive depends on how many participants there are. The books that will show up at your door are the other people’s much loved stories #SaveTheCulture #BookExchange #LongLiveBooks"
In all the posts I've seen of it, there have been people expressing reservations about the pyramid nature of the scheme, and I share those. So I fixed it.
If you want to play, I made a swap over on Elfster. This means that I don't know who each person gets, it's entirely mystery. Buy a book, one you love, as a present, and send it. Someone else will do the same for you, and hopefully it'll be a way of trying something new.
https://www.elfster.com/exchange/view/21629452/59c345/ is the signup link, I put in a sign up deadline of 2nd January and an exchange date of 18th January, so shopping can wait until after the busy period and there is hopefully a nice thing at a time when lots of people are feeling a bit glum. Hopefully, because the idea is that it's something you love, it'll be a bit easier than trying to work out what other people like!
ps this might get international, so let me know if you don't want to send outside your country.