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By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:18:09 +0000

Hi John. I’m still a little confused about how you work. I’m studying French and really want a copy of “Le petit Prince.” but I’ve got the site info in french, when I need it in english.Now I can’t even find the page where I list books I’m willing to trade! “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens is one.Please help.

By: Pedro Areal

Pedro Areal — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:32:20 +0000

An angel is someone that mooches a book for you, when you cannot do so, due to having the wrong nationality. That’s a way to get your hands in books you want but that are not available internationally. See the bookmooch wiki for more information.

By: Carol Lynn

Carol Lynn — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:17:15 +0000

It’s possible that the users account was put on hold and she didn’t want to cancel the books at all. I joined bookmooch this week and listed over 50 books. Over 30 of them were mooched immediately and I’ve sent most of them off (I needed a box for one of the multiple book mooches). I started to mooch some books of my own, and then got a message that my account had been placed on hold until an administrator reviewed it. After contacting tech support I was told that my account had a higher than usual volume for a new account and was thus put on hold. This is very frustrating to me. If I had been aware of limits for new accounts I would have gladly followed them, but I was put in the same situation that someone sent me books and then got a cancellation notice. Thankfully that person was very understanding when I e-mailed them back, but I feel like it makes me look bad. I understand completely why account limits should be in place for new users. I could list 200 books and not actually send any of them, but I feel like there should be a better way to fix this. Either state a limit for new accounts or don’t give points for mooched books until they’re received. Suspending an account without notice affects not only that user but all the users that they mooched from as well as users who want to mooch from them. Also, on a personal note, if you put my account on hold then you should also hold the e-mails letting me know books on my wishlist have become available…it’s especially frustrating to know that books I want are available but I’m not allowed to mooch them.

By: c. bockstoce

c. bockstoce — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:43:47 +0000

I’ve been a BookMooch member a little over a year now and think it is great. Some things I’ve had a hard time finding about.
For example: What is a BookMooch Angel?
Who becomes one? What is a requirement to be one? Who needs an Angel? Where does one go to find out this information?

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:30:51 +0000

Hi
I have recently had a new experience on Bookmooch and would be grateful for others members advice on my situation.
I accepted a mooch from a member in Sweden and sent her three books. She received a note from her Post Office telling her to go and collect them but by the time she did so they has been returned to me. (you only have a limited number of days to collect). She emailed me explaining what happened and admitted that it was her fault. My problem is that these books now feature in my “Books sent” list. I can’t help feeling that this member should mark the books as received even though I have got them back because otherwise I can see that what is going to happen is that she will wait until the four months is up and she can mark them as lost. OK I accept that I have had my points and I’ve still got the books, but it dosen’t look good on my profile having three extra books marked as lost, when they wern’t lost at all.
Opinions please.

By: Claudia

Claudia — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:42:44 +0000

Hello John:

Why do I have to delete a book in order to edit it? Since I live in Mexico and some of the books in my inventory are old, I have to hand-enter them and if there is a mistake I see later, thee seems to be no way to fix it. (No EDIT-button). Could yo make one? I have no idea how complicated that is. My HTML is in diapers.

All the best,
Claudia

By: Wendy

Wendy — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:02:29 +0000

I just joined Book Mooch and as soon as I listed my first book last night, it was mooched and I sent it today. What a lovely experience. I understand how Book Mooch makes its money to run this lovely website. However I’m a little disappointed that I can only find books that can be found at amazon. I’ve always been reading books in English but since I moved to the US, I miss reading books in Chinese. I do know the ISBNs of a lot of books in Chinese that I would love to mooch but because they’re not being sold on Amazon, there’s no way for people to give or mooch them. Would Book Mooch consider this problem please?

By: sarahemmm

sarahemmm — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:00:58 +0000

A suggestion:

I had no idea that bookmarks were available until I saw the comment about UK and France. You definitely need to make this info more visible. Also, make it more obvious tha twe can print these ourselves and save you the time and cost. Most people can do this easily nowadays, and I am sure it will get many more cards and bookmarks out and about. (For example, I normally put LibraryThing bookmarks in with my books, but I will now add BookMooch ones too – including when I send books sold via Amazon or swapped via ReadItSwapIt.)

..and a comment:

I joined ReadItSwapIt a couple of years ago, when there seemed to be no UK bookmoochers. But I am happy to tell all and sundry that your swapping method is waaay better. Delighted to find that there are now growing numbers of UK bookmoochers – keep up the good work!

By: rochanah weissinger

rochanah weissinger — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:58:23 +0000

JOHN: I have finally trained myself to go to Amazon through book mooch since I feel you need to make MONEY.

However, it appears to me that after the first Amazon page, when I browse within their site, the book mooch tail disappears.

JOHN: do you know: as long as I go through bookmooch at the beginning, even if I switch to the used page in Amazon to get the book, do you still get a %? Because if you don’t I will not bother to go through bookmooch to Amazon since 95% of the time I buy from their used books people.

By: cross54

cross54 — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:32:41 +0000

Hi John;
Love the site but I was wondering…can BM institute a policy that dictates a cap on a listing when there are already too many available as inventory? When going to list some of my more popular books I notice several hundreds of copies already on file and I feel that the reality of my book being mooched is slim to none. Doesn’t it make sense that it is not productive to accumulate large numbers of the same titles to this point of saturation? Can BM’s policy state that no more copies of a book be excepted after X amount has been reached? When the numbers decline relating to successful mooching, they can again be added. IMO I think that there needs to be a cut off number. To me it seems almost ludicrous to continue to accept listings of a book whose inventory is already larger then the demand. The lister gets points for their availability ( in theory could they list 12 books with such large inventories that they probably would have little chance of being selected to mooch one of them and ven though it is not their intent, they can then qualify to receive a mooch). To me it seems as if the books being listed are almost not really available & that the amount of books look like alot but actually aren’t.
I hope that this makes sense. Setting a limit on posting would help streamine the overall inventory and possibly sway those with these books to either hold onto them until the inventory decines to list them or to free them up to find others who may benefit from their donation etc.
just my opinion…I personally cannot in good faith add another book to a huge listing…maybe others feel the same way.

Thanks for eveerything.