Trade Children's Books on Swaptree

While 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

Swaptree works like this:

1. List an item you have to trade.


2. Swaptree's algorithms discover what you can receive in trade for your item.


3. You chose what you want in trade.


4. Print postage and mail your item.

You can read more about Swaptree on Eco Child's Play.