This weekend is the AAUW Used Book Sale at the Kalispell Center Mall. The pricing structure is simple, a dollar an inch, and on Sunday it will be a dollar a bag (I’m fairly certain it’s a dollar, but it may be five). In many cases a perfectly good book is less than a dollar. This particular pile of books is roughly 26 inches tall. That’s right, 26 bucks. Galileo’s Daughter originally retailed for 27 dollars, and the retail of the entire stack is 180.09. Not a bad haul, I say.

Speaking of saving money on books, I’ve never properly pimped PaperBackSwap.com. It’s pricing structure is simple as well. You send someone a book that you no longer want and they do want, and then you can request a book that you would like to have from someone else. All you pay is shipping which is usually around $1.57. So, rather than taking all of your old paperbacks to the used bookstore while hoping you get something for them, you can just list them on PaperBackSwap.

There are disadvantages, though. If you’re getting rid of your books to get them out of the way, this site probably isn’t for you. You must keep them around. There are also some books that people just don’t want, but you can always remove them from your list of offered books and get rid of them the old fashioned way.

You’re also not limited to paperbacks. You can list hardbacks and audiobooks as well, but you should keep shipping costs in mind. We’ve requested books only to find when we received them that they’re the more expensive hardbacks. We’ve also sent off a few hardback books. You can also often find books that you haven’t found anywhere else. I didn’t want to order Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and couldn’t find it in any stores, but it was on PaperBackSwap.

Oy, that sounded like one of those horrid pay per post thingys. I’d rather think of this as a recommendation to check out the site, not an advertisement.