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Trade Your Child’s Books for New Ones with Swaptree

by Jennifer Lance on January 31, 2008 · 9 comments

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 [read the full article...]

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