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Book swap

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UCM · 07/05/2006 00:16

I am thinking that we should do a book swap. You send a book to someone who sends a book to someone and so on. It doesn't matter if you didn't like the book, the next one might please you.

Any takers???????????????????????

I am a fan of Harlan Coben, Denise Ryan and Marian Keyes, Stuart Macbride.

OP posts:
MarsLady · 31/05/2006 15:46

Email received. Looking forward to the next cycle so that I can start to swap. Must look out a book to send and be ready. Smile

katyrocks · 30/05/2006 23:44

marslady, it is done. let me know if you receive the email. ive just finished a report for work adn my typing is slightly less than perfect tonight Grin

dewmeadow · 30/05/2006 23:23

you are a SERIOUS booklover Franny!

katyrocks · 30/05/2006 23:18

wouldn't write in a cover, i thought it meant notes put inside on a bit of paper. quite like the ides of signing the front cover tho!

sorry but i'm a spine bender Blush! i'll try really hard not to Smile

marslady, i'll add you on to the list and forward it back to you and UCM, along with any other additions.

FrannyandZooey · 30/05/2006 21:11

I think writing in the cover of your own book is just about excusable :)

But if anyone writes in the one I have sent I will hunt them down

PanicPants · 30/05/2006 20:52

My own book that is, not the one I've got now!

PanicPants · 30/05/2006 20:51

Right ok, I've been away for a few days so lets see if I've got this right:

  1. We're going to send the books on in 3 weeks.
  2. We're NOT making notes in the books but on bits of paper if we want to.
  3. We're all going to start a thread about the book we have now, and then add to the appropriate thread when we've finished each book.
  4. We aren't going to bend corners of pages, bend spines, read in the bath, write in margins or on covers.

Well I've aleady written in the cover of my book Blush

PrincessBoris · 30/05/2006 20:43

Thanks kipper

kipper22 · 30/05/2006 20:42

it should be nikkie judging by the email if that helps?

PrincessBoris · 30/05/2006 20:29

I was just wondering who has the book I sent

Ill email them later

kipper22 · 30/05/2006 20:06

sorry boris, which book do you mean? The one I've written in is a Mike Gayle one, the one with loose pages is by Sheila Quigly. I do read in the bath too but I'm also very careful & put it on the floor with a towel over it so that I don't splash it while washing my hair! I think I prefer the idea of a thread for each book as I also like to read in the car, on the train, etc and would likely lose bits of paper - either by taking them out to keep them safe or by dropping them.

bumbleweed · 30/05/2006 18:04

dont think so kipper - dunno havent got to the book quite yet! comment not aimed at you at all - just adding my bit to the outrageous treatment of books theme Smile

I'm not a corner-turner myself but I do read in the bath and do bend the spines slightly so I can read the words in the middle

kipper22 · 30/05/2006 17:50

Blush Blush does you saying that mean the book you have has creased pages bumbleweed? It's not me - it's dh!

FeckingFulfordmoonfiend · 30/05/2006 17:38

PS. will attempt not to outrage anyone by reading in bath/turning pages over/writing etc but personally, I have no objections. For me, 'tis all about the enjoyment of the book.

FeckingFulfordmoonfiend · 30/05/2006 17:36

kka - thanks m'dear, got your book today and am very :) as haven't read anything by the author but always meant to.

bresha · 30/05/2006 17:36

thats just wrong, you can use any old bit of paper for a book mark,

bumbleweed · 30/05/2006 17:33

What think you of people who bend over the corner of the page instead of using a bookmark?

kickassangel · 30/05/2006 15:25

posted mine on sat, first class, so should be with someone soon (are we allowed to reveal our identities?). posty didn't bring me anything exciting this morning, so still waiting Sad

bresha · 30/05/2006 15:02

Maybe righting on a bit of paper would be a good idea , as long as we don’t Wright anything reviling about the book on it but just a quick note, and of those who don’t wont to read any ones opinions before reading the book can just not look until they have finished. It will be interesting to see at the end who liked it and who didn’t. I have a few books a adore and would go crazy if any one hurt or wrote on them but I also get a lot of books from charity shops and I really don’t care if they get written on the inside of the front cover ( not on the pages you actually read) just as long as they are enjoyed
I also read in the bath its one of the only time I get peace and quiet to read 

WigWamBam · 30/05/2006 14:36

I'd rather not have notes written in the book I sent either. If anyone wants to write notes perhaps it could be on a separate piece of paper?

I don't like breaking the spines of books either but the one I got has already got its spine broken and wodges of pages loose ... I will try really hard not to drop the loose pages in the book but can't guarantee it! I dare say someone's going to Grin

MarsLady · 30/05/2006 14:30

I've emailed you katyrocks.

PrincessBoris · 30/05/2006 14:19

what book it is?

kipper22 · 30/05/2006 14:17

I wrote things about it being for book swap in the front of the book I sent [blush was hoping that if I ever got it back everyone might have added their name as a kind of keepsake. Sorry to those who will be outraged!

BTW, 5 or so of the pages of the book I'm reading (and can't put down!) have come loose but it was like this when I received it!

dewmeadow · 30/05/2006 10:06

[no words Im so shocked emoticon]

HarpsichordCarrierOnSea · 30/05/2006 09:58

blimey
yet another club I can't join then Sadthe very first thing I do when I start reading a book is break the spine so I can read it properly with one hand.
then I drop it in the bath
sit down ladies because I have something shocking to tell you - when I read A Suitable Boy I cut it in ^half
too damn big
I thought dh might swoon

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