If you like to read and collect books, you need a steady source. Amazon is fine but buying new books can get expensive. And what is a used book anyway? A book that someone else bought? And maybe read?We have some really nice used bookstores in my area, but my favorite source is Paperbackswap.com. It's kind of like a book club. You post books that you own and want to get rid of. If someone wants your book, you receive an e-mail telling you where to send it. You pay the postage, usually about $2.50-$3.00 media mail rate. For each book you send, you get a "credit" that can be used to request any book you want from other club members - hard or soft cover - and it gets shipped to you. I have swapped over 200 books and 8 out of 10 arrive in "like new" condition, like they were never even read.
Yesterday I received Dog Jack by Florence Biros. It's about a dog that accompanied a regiment of volunteers from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the Civil War.
I learned today that Biros wrote the first version of Dog Jack as a story for Boys' Life magazine. It was eventually turned into a book and published by Son-Rise Publications, a company founded by Biros and her husband in 1976 to produce family-friendly historical novels. The Son-Rise Web site claims more than 100 titles in print. Its top seller is Dog Jack, with 70,000 copies.
Dog Jack was turned into a movie in 2009.
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