Books to get rid of

[A Smith]

Charity shops must be losing out big with the change to downloaded music and
coming growth of pdf books.
--
Andrew

2009/11/10 Philippe Bruhat (BooK) <philippe.bruhat at free.fr>

> On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 09:49:20PM +0000, Denny wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 22:31 +0100, Richard Foley wrote:
> > > On Sunday 08 November 2009 19:44:15 Peter Corlett wrote:
> > > > Giving stuff away on Freecycle is way too much work. It's almost as
> if
> > > > the people who run it have engineered it to discourage the occasional
> > > > giver as much as possible.
> > >
> > > Sounds like another great idea turned into a YAWOT (Yet Another Waste
> > > Of Time) because it's grown, or was built, too complicated.
> >
> > Mostly it just suffers from using Yahoo groups as the back-end, and then
> > trying to wrapper those in a failed attempt to make them friendlier or
> > something.  Once you've managed to sign up to your local group, casual
> > giving is easy - post one message saying what you've got to give away,
> > pick a winner from the emails that are sent to you in reply, and then
> > post a second email saying that you've chosen someone and the stuff is
> > gone now.
> >
>
> Web site doing freecycle-like style donation in France:
> http://www.donnons.org/.
>
> Subscribed yesterday, put in two items, got 4 requests already.
> Much easier than writing/processing emails.
>
> --
>  Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
>
>  You never know what love is until you lose it.
>                                    (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #38
> (Epic))
>



-- 
Your special friend

Love Andrew x