Green Options » Swaptree http://greenoptions.com/tag/swaptree Posts tagged 'Swaptree' Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:24:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Trade Your Child’s Books for New Ones with Swaptree http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/01/31/trade-your-childs-books-for-new-ones-with-swaptree/ http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/01/31/trade-your-childs-books-for-new-ones-with-swaptree/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:24:58 +0000 Jennifer Lance http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/01/31/trade-your-childs-books-for-new-ones-with-swaptree/ swaptree_logo.gifWhile reading one of my favorite parenting blogs Z Recommends, I noticed an advertisement for Swaptree. Swaptree provides an online service where you can trade books, music, dvds, and video games for free with other users. This is a great idea for children’s books, especially as children outgrow pictures books and are ready for chapter books.

Swaptree was started because the founders noticed:

  • their mothers were frequently trading books with their network of friends
  • their nephews played a new $55 dollar video game for a week or so, and then never again
  • their shelves (and everyone else’s shelves that they knew) were filled with hundreds of CDs and DVDs that weren’t going to see the inside of a CD or DVD player anytime soon
  • the price of college textbooks had gotten out of hand

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