Interesting article in The Guardian about an online lending library in the UK called My Book, Your Book that sounds like a cross between Book-Crossing and Netflix. Readers pay an annual fee and pledge to share 10 of their own paperbacks in return for access to titles owned by the rest of the MBYB community. You add your books to the comprehensive availability list. When you see a book you want to borrow, you send the owner a self-addressed/stamped/padded envelope and that person sends you the book. When you finish (you can have it up to 5 weeks), you send it on to the next person who wants it.It's a cool idea - anyone want to help me launch one here in the States?
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