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A few months ago I read about a service called “BookMooch”:http:\/\/bookmooch.com\/<\/a> on “BoingBoing”:http:\/\/boingboing.net<\/a> that offers users a community full of people wanting to exchange their old books for free. I’ve used the site extensively and have loved it. I was finally able to get rid of those old Tom Clancy novels and ‘trade up’ to the classier writings of Henry James. My conclusion: there aren’t enough phrases like “class 2 tactical op” in Henry James. Luckily I can always trade down again with BookMooch.
\nThe idea of a non-monetary economy in which people share their goods and\/or services sounds like wackiness, I know, but I just read an “article”:http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/15.03\/start.html?pg=4<\/a> from Wired Online about more ‘analog peer-to-peer’ sites that promise just such a cashless utopia. Each one caters to a different type of media, but here’s a short summary taken from the article:
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\n“PEERFLIX”:http:\/\/peerflix.com\/<\/a>
\nMEDIA: DVD
\nINVENTORY: 40,000 titles
\nPER-TRADE FEE: $1.50
\n“LA LA”:http:\/\/www.lala.com\/<\/a>
\nMEDIA: CD
\nINVENTORY: 1.8 million titles
\nPER-TRADE FEE: $1.75
\n“PAPERBACKSWAP”:http:\/\/www.paperbackswap.com\/index.php<\/a>
\nMEDIA: Take a guess …
\nINVENTORY: 30,000 titles
\nPER-TRADE FEE: $1.59
\n“GAMESWAP”:http:\/\/www.gameswap.com\/<\/a>
\nMEDIA: Videogame
\nINVENTORY: 1,102 games
\nPER-TRADE FEE: $1.99 “<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The idea of a non-monetary economy in which people share their goods and\/or services sounds like wackiness, I know, but I just read an “article”:http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/15.03\/start.html?pg=4<\/a> from Wired Online about more ‘analog peer-to-peer’ sites that promise just such a cashless utopia. Each one caters to a different type of media, but here’s a short summary taken from the article:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[151,193,268,324],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-free-culture","tag-internet","tag-peer-to-peer","tag-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}