I will continue to also use BM as long as I can. The swaps are less protected (I can't tell if there is actually active site support left), posting books takes more effort since you have to manually add new titles to your shelf, and there are way less people to swap with. But books still move there.

But I do wish they had a better system to trade still usable unpostables, rather than banning them from qualifying for credit swaps.

Or that the BookMooch team would come back and start updating and promoting their site again. Some rules were confusing, but it had good potential.

Sadly, I am one of those who had to add condition requirements to "give a stern talking to" after about the 5th ignored unpostable book received that caused respiratory issues. This limited my swaps because some users will automatically decline a swap with RCs "just to be safe" which is silly to me.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE PaperBackSwap. It has helped me to obtain books that I would have never found locally or affordably. Their user database is unmatched.

I miss when BookMooch was an active page with working posting tools because you could post almost any book. It had a field to list the condition of the book so you could make note of the flaws and let users choose. I still use the site but most users have been inactive 5+ years, so little moves.

I mean, on the one hand, I absolutely understand it. I have a mold allergy and have received books that were posted despite being unpostable that I have had to throw away. But there is a difference between an "oops drink splash" and a "left out in the rain" type of major water damage.

Heads up - This IS an amazon link, so if you are participating in the economic blackout and don't want to give traffic - even on free items - the audiobook is available on Hoopla through your local library!
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I don't think you understood what I said. I was pointing out that anyone old enough to have unfettered access to the internet has most likely used generative AI, whether they realize it or not. Yes, some younger people most assuredly have as well. But it's likely that every adult or adolescent has.

Ballot boxes were burned in several states, and machines were clearly hacked - districts where workers saw record voter turnout officially reported "low voter turnout." Countless votes were lost. T fully expected to lose (and had a plan for it) but colluders took steps to make sure it didn't happen.

Respectfully, if you truly believe that 38% of our population chose to opt out on such an important and divisive election, their propaganda is working on you too.

I'd be willing to bet that there's very few people above the age of 14 that this truly describes, despite what they may think. There are so many things out there that have used Gen AI for years, before most people were aware of what it was. Like all those photo transform filters on social media.

I'm not saying people should be freaking out or scared to fly. But their concerns are legitimate. And using selective statistics to minimize them isn't doing anyone justice. The amount of serious mishaps with US passenger planes in the last 30 days is absurd and someone needs to be asking questions.

2024 aviation accidents WORLDWIDE resulted in 318 fatalities. In the first 1.5 months of 2025, US based accidents have killed 85. That means that in just over a month, US aviation fatalities have exceeded a quarter of last years worldwide total. This is the deadliest year for US aviation since 2011.

People's trepidation is still perfectly valid. You are looking at statistics but all you are noting is "accidents with fatalities" and not fatality counts, and the significant difference due to the fact that 2 of the accidents so far this year were passenger planes, which hasn't happened since 2022.

Mine is a BP medication that I take to control tachycardia. The problem is that it lowers BP, and I already have naturally low BP. They had previously considered doubling the dosage, so I knew I wasn't at the prescribable max, but the experience was enough to tell me it was a bad idea.