Are you able to add books to your inventory & wishlist?

I haven't been able to add books to either my inventory or wishlist for quite a while. I thought Amazon had pretty much killed the site - all I've been able to do is hope for books already on my wishlist to come up so that I can use up my last few points. Looking at recent posts in this group though, it seems some of you are still actively using the site. I did see that there is supposed to be a way to hand-enter books, but I tried a few ISBNs and they weren't working. There were also those complicated-looking 'moochbar' instructions...

But there's really not much point in adding books to give away if I won't be able to add more books I want to mooch to my wishlist. Are you able to add books to your wishlist? How?

Thanks!

I can see the "add books" function doesn't work, but you can still find books through the browse function (if some version of it is already on bookmooch) and then add to wishlist or inventory. I tried it just now, it still works.

ETA: if the book isn't on bookmooch at all you can hand-enter, not through the ISBN but by filling in the whole form, but that is time-consuming.

I’ve been able to add books but nothing that’s been published recently. When you are searching select unmoochable and sometimes they will come up. Regardless, I have 3,900 books in my wishlist and I’m lucky if I get something to come up once a month. I hate for the site to die and wish someone would buy it who is willing to invest resources and upgrade. I would really be interested in knowing why amazon cut them off. I joined Goodreads because I’d heard so much about and immediately began getting obscene emails because I didn’t realize how many security selections you have to make. If anyone is aware of a site similar to bookmooch I would love to hear about it.

>3 varielle: There's paperbackswap.com. I've never tried it, but I believe it works in pretty much the same way that BookMooch does.

>2 wester: Thanks! :)

Thank you! I’ll check it out.

Slight downside to PB Swap is you have to pay fees. In the end that's why I left that site. Felt like I was paying too much for what I was getting, even if there were more books on my wishlist available.

I just opened a BookMooch account. I was able to add books from LibraryThing and then make a wish list.

Unfortunately, nobody had any books I wanted, but I got about a dozen requests for me to send books. It was just too overwhelming, so I deleted my account later in the day. Perhaps I was using it wrong, but it was even less user friendly than LibraryThing!

I think a better system than BookSwap's point system would be a site that just matches readers who then agree to a trade. My brother uses a website for board games that matches a user's wanted lists to another user's wish list. It seems to work out very well.

Sorry to get off topic!

It’s best not to add more than a few books at a time. If you put anything desirable out there you will get swarmed because there are so few. I hope you will try again.

>8 varielle:

Your books must have been better than average books. It was kind of overwhelming for me at the beginning too so I stopped and came back after a few years. Try listing a few definitely not super popular books or even magazines as practice first. It takes a few days to get a sense of where things are and how things work on Bookmooch but it's pretty straight forward after you get a hang of it.

There does seem to be a lack of book choices on BM though.

>7 mvblair: There are some good suggestions here for using BookMooch, although I agree the site isn't what it was a few years ago, and being cut off from Amazon.com has really hurt. As to swap sites, maybe there are more books in the world than board games, but they have never seemed very useful to me. Or maybe it depends on what kind of books you want (I am not into best-sellers or even ex-best sellers, looking more for the kind of academic books that people don't get rid of).