Christmas Swap 2016

Welcome to the Christmas Swap for the 75 Books Challenge Group 2016. Yes, believe it or not, its that time again. I am Jeff (mahsdad) and this is my 2nd year running the 75 Group Swap. We had a few glitches last year that I hope to avoid, I promise to get the addresses right. I'm looking forward to a prosperous book giving season.

As before, we keep this simple: Let me know if you are playing, PM me your address, I will draw names randomly and everyone will get a 75er to buy gift book(s) for.

We keep it to a $25 limit, so it can be affordable for everyone. This can be new books or carefully preserved “used” books. This will be open to everyone, everywhere, since there are free shipping options available, like Book Depository.

The cut off will be about the 23rd of November (Day before US Thanksgiving). I will pick the names and get the addresses out in PM messages as soon as I can after that.

Once that is done, you can select from that Lter's wishlist or pick something on your own. The former is a safer bet. We do our best to get the gift books to the recipients, by Christmas, so ship accordingly. International shipping can sometimes take up to 3 weeks or more.

Make sure you have Christmas Swap or LibraryThing printed somewhere on the shipping label, so your giftee "knows" and can save it for a Christmas opening. Another suggestion that I saw last year was, if the shipper didn’t allow for personal messages, put “LT” in as part of your giftee’s name.

Please feel free to use this thread to ask questions, make suggestions, or explicitly state that you do NOT want the latest YA Werewolf/Vampire Romantic-comedy series even though everyone says you must read it.

Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Kwanzaa! Merry Festivus for the rest of us.

Shoot, I posted this in the wrong group.

I'm going to recreate it and post a new link here. Damn, I guess that's my one screw-up for the year....

New link in the 2016 Group. Sorry...

https://www.librarything.com/topic/239733