I love free stuff

I recently decided to sign the library up for a Bookmooch account, mostly as a resource for getting rid of all the random books lying around my office that were either a) weeded from the collection for being seriously out of date, or b) donated to the library, often in hopes of recieving a positive review in one of our publications, but completely off topic.

So far, people have been snatching these books up left and right. I only started listing things last Thursday, and I've already sent out 12 books, and I have another 4 waiting for processing.

With all the points my donations have been racking up, I decided I'd look into spending them on books for the library. (Basically, Bookmooch works like this: a moocher lists books he/she has and is willing to give away. People request titles. The moocher gets a point for every title sent out, and 1/10 of a point for every title listed, whether it's mooched or not. Those points can then be used to "mooch" books from other members, usually at one point per book.)

I've gotten so excited doing this, that I not only filled in a couple of holes in our collection, but accidentally got carried away, and now find myself with two copies of the 2008 Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics, a volume we were missing from our governmnet documents collection.

Oh well, I guess I can now list the second copy (when I recieve it; so far, only one has arrived) and hopefully get myself another 1.1 points!