Comments on: BookMooch http://jasongriffey.net/wp/2006/08/07/bookmooch/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:50:45 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The OPLIN 4cast » Blog Archive » OPLIN 4cast #19 http://jasongriffey.net/wp/2006/08/07/bookmooch/#comment-1033 The OPLIN 4cast » Blog Archive » OPLIN 4cast #19 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:50:26 +0000 http://www.jasongriffey.net/wp/2006/08/07/bookmooch/#comment-1033 [...] BookMooch (Pattern Recognition) [...] [...] BookMooch (Pattern Recognition) [...]

]]> By: j linnell http://jasongriffey.net/wp/2006/08/07/bookmooch/#comment-1032 j linnell Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:37:45 +0000 http://www.jasongriffey.net/wp/2006/08/07/bookmooch/#comment-1032 I'd call bookmooch a shared /private/ library. One has to make a capital investment to take part. Put up your own books and pay to send them out. Another more /public/ library project exists in bookcrossing.com. At bookcrossing, you essentially mark your books as belonging to bookcrossing, leave them in a public place, and then hope others log onto the site, log the book and pass it on to someone new. While bookmooch operates on a private property model, bookcrossing works on a shared resource model. I'd be interested to hear of other internet-based library approaches. I’d call bookmooch a shared /private/ library. One has to make a capital investment to take part. Put up your own books and pay to send them out. Another more /public/ library project exists in bookcrossing.com. At bookcrossing, you essentially mark your books as belonging to bookcrossing, leave them in a public place, and then hope others log onto the site, log the book and pass it on to someone new.

While bookmooch operates on a private property model, bookcrossing works on a shared resource model. I’d be interested to hear of other internet-based library approaches.

]]> By: Tim http://jasongriffey.net/wp/2006/08/07/bookmooch/#comment-1031 Tim Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:29:03 +0000 http://www.jasongriffey.net/wp/2006/08/07/bookmooch/#comment-1031 We felt that swapping was it's own thing--something you needed to really focus on to get it right. Instead, we waited for the idea to build, and now we're becoming a swap-aggregator. Any site that gives us their data can be present on LibraryThing. See http://www.librarything.com/blog/2006/09/arrr-swap-books.php . We felt that swapping was it’s own thing–something you needed to really focus on to get it right. Instead, we waited for the idea to build, and now we’re becoming a swap-aggregator. Any site that gives us their data can be present on LibraryThing. See http://www.librarything.com/blog/2006/09/arrr-swap-books.php .

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