Don’t you just love give away days? I j’adore them because it makes me look benevolent and kind and awesome and all that junk. Well, today is no exception, I’m going to be looking pretty rad when I bestow one lucky commentor a three month subscription to Book Swim. Pray tell, what is book swim?
I’m so glad you asked. Book Swim is the cure for my shrinking bank account and my increasing amount of laziness (look, I’m cooking an entire human here, it’s work). Book Swim absolves me of all my television watching guilt. In a word: Book Swim is awesome.
Book Swim is the Netflix for Books.
Yes, the netflix. For books. It’s about time, right?
While titles from design heavyweights like Wearstler and Adler are noticeably absent from the Book Swim selection, I did manage to find the above. (Can you guess which ones are in my queue?) For the most part, I’m pretty impressed with their selection, about 80% of the titles I searched for were found in their database, including obscure reference books and random collections of short essays. All and all I’d consider the selection pretty good considering that there must be, like, a gazillion trillion books in the world.
Want to try it out? Of course you do. Leave a comment on this post between now and Thursday, 7/1 at 6:00 pm Central time. The winner will receive a free 3 month subscription to la Swim. Check back on Friday when I announce the lucky duck.
If you can’t wait that long to get your read on, go sign yo self up HERE.
April 1st? Really? That’s a long wait. Perhaps you mean July 1?
Yes please, yes please, yes please – enter me in the drawing. this is so.totally.awesome.
I love the library but I hate late fees.
Thank you!
i was gonna say, i have to wait 9 months for this? regardless, i hope i win
want!
How awesome! I suck at returning things to libraries on time, so I usually end up buying books. Now I have too many.
I need this.
Great idea! Though I have to say, I love having books on my shelves I can admire from afar and pick up whenever I want. Not that I do that too often. Still- Book Swim would definitely help the wallet.
ooooh, pick me, pick me. See, I’m waving my hand and jumping up and down.
Sorry dudes, I totally meant 7/1. Enter away!!
I did something like this a few years ago with an online book exchange, but while the books simply cost you a book in return, you had to pay for shipping. Boo.
This looks much better except … I am OK with the free service at my public library. Oh well, make BookSwim free for me!
La La Love the Printed Word. Gimme, gimme!
ooo this looks awesome and like the perfect thing to go along with my laziness
wow, seems like a great service.
I just love books… and my house is slowly becoming a librairie with books everywhere
I’m do glad my ADD kicked in and made me check the DC blog just now. This is awesome. And I feel like a winner this week, so bring it!
I love Book Swim and Book Swim for free would be even better! I’m saving a ton of cash that would otherwise be spent at Borders or Barnes & Noble or Amazon! Great for “Recessionistas”
I comment! What a neat thing.
best. idea. ever.
Ooh, yes, cut me off from my crack–aka Amazon!
Oh wowza! I would love to dabble my pink lil toes in the cool refreshing water of that pool! Book swim for meee pleeeasssseeeee!!!!!
Oooohhh! This could be just the ticket to keeping me from having to haul even more books on my cross country move. Ya know because I couldn’t just stop accumulating more books.
Sounds cool! I would love to try out some design books before shelling out the $30-$60 each I would to buy them on Amazon! Would sure save me some money.
amazing, would be so great try this out!!
oooh! This is the first I’ve heard of this service! Me cave woman, but me love books! Thanks for the chance to win.
Yes please.
We have 13 bookshelves in our house and we’re running out of walls.
…until I start to construct walls from bookcases!
I’d love to try this.
Yes, please!
Well, because the library is SO FAR AWAY *bleHEMdownthestreet*, having books delivered to my door would be super amazing.
(I’m lazy)
I am so excited about this service!!! Thanks for the tip!
this is the greatest thing i’ve ever heard of!
Definitely want!
Looks pretty cool
yay!
sounds good, put my name in.
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