With book-giving season close upon us, some people who can part with their volumes might be weeding their home collections, or at least rotating their stock. For those looking for a new home for their overage, check out the swap sites such as Bookins
and Book Mooch listed in a story in today's Washington Post (in the soon-to-be-defunct Sunday Source section). They're kind of a global shared-collection blog. At least some of the sites have 2.0 community features, so users can chat about their books. And isn't it great that there are still so many dead-tree-literature lovers out there? Speaking of weeding, I nabbed a withdrawn copy of one of Mame Warren's photo histories of Annapolis this week, and lo at a Maryland Avenue antique store today I spotted the same book (admittedly a lot less thumbed) for a cool $125. Maybe there is gold in them thar stacks.
As for Ends, the Twing of a previous post is no more. My "Twidget" for it quit working so I went to check out the site and it is now the Dreaded White Screen of Death. According to Tech Crunch, Twing was owned by Accoona, which the writer calls a "highly suspect ... search/electronics retailer." No official word on what happened to Twing but it seemed not to be getting repeat visitors. Maybe there's money to be made in starting an obituary site for dead dot-coms...
