Turn Your Meaty Cookbooks into Veggie Ones with PaperBack Swap
While cleaning off and sorting through my bookshelves the other day, in my semi-annual “where am I going to put all these books?!” panic, I realized that I was still holding on to several non-vegetarian cookbooks. I flipped through and decided that none of them had enough veg-friendly recipes to make them keepers. So into the “get rid of these” pile they went.
But what do you do with a recipe book you don’t want anymore? If it were just magazines, I would recycle them so as not to encourage cooking with meat. But I am pretty sure it’s a sin to throw a book away.
I offered them to friends and family; no one had space or need for more recipe books. I took some of the large, heavy ones to my local library and left them on the “free” table.
But with the ones that were could be shipped for a reasonable rate - keeping in mind that you can get a discounted book rate - I posted online at PaperBack Swap.
PaperBack Swap (PBS), and its related site“> Swap a DVD, are communities where you can post books or movies to swap with other members.
I posted my non-veggie cookbooks and waited. PBS e-mailed me when someone else was interested in one of my books. I printed postage from the PBS site, mailed it out, and received credit that I could use to request books that I wanted. PBS even has a vegetarian section underneath the Cooking, Food & Wine search option - so you can trade in your meaty recipe books for tofu ones!
November 19th, 2008 at 11:01 am
I just joined Swaptree.com - I think its like PaperBackSwap but you can also trade out your DVDs and CDs (which I have tons of). I’ll let you know how it goes! byyyeee