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Aug. 6th, 2008 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
commotiocordisSeriously. Seriously?
BookSwim is the first online book rental library club lending you paperbacks and hardcovers netflix-style directly to your house without the need to purchase!
I know my library does this already for the elderly and disabled. For, you know, free. I can see how it'd maybe be handy for the new Harry Potter book or whatever, but I bet these guys'd have the same kind of wait as at the library or only slightly shorter--you'd end up waiting for months for the one book and spending way more in membership fees than it would have cost you to buy the thing. And how often do people have books like that where they want to get it read right away when it comes out? It doesn't seem like high-profile releases like that happen very often.
Conclusion? If you sign up for this without good reason (i.e., you live 90 miles from the nearest library), you are officially a sucker.
BookSwim is the first online book rental library club lending you paperbacks and hardcovers netflix-style directly to your house without the need to purchase!
I know my library does this already for the elderly and disabled. For, you know, free. I can see how it'd maybe be handy for the new Harry Potter book or whatever, but I bet these guys'd have the same kind of wait as at the library or only slightly shorter--you'd end up waiting for months for the one book and spending way more in membership fees than it would have cost you to buy the thing. And how often do people have books like that where they want to get it read right away when it comes out? It doesn't seem like high-profile releases like that happen very often.
Conclusion? If you sign up for this without good reason (i.e., you live 90 miles from the nearest library), you are officially a sucker.
