Paperback Swap

Have you heard about Paperback Swap?

I had heard about it for years but never bothered to check it out. Now I'm kicking myself! If you're a reader (like me), it's a perfect place to find new books (even if they are just new to you). You list books you'd like to sent to others and select books you'd like to get.

I've been using it for a few weeks and the only problem I've run into is that the books I think "Oh, I've been wanting that for awhile" don't show up often. I do much better when I search through the available books.

While Paperback Swap states their is no fee, it's misleading. You do have to pay shipping to mail books to others (and if you want to get more books, you have to either pay for the credit or mail out more books) but the price is much lower than if you bought them new and for most used bookstores. For example I mailed out 2 books together for the price of 1 at a local used book store and got 2 credits.

If you like to read and don't mind giving away the ones you've read, then I recommend Paperback Swap. Click the link below to sign up:

Yesterday

I do love that song. Of course, I'm a Beatlemaniac, just born 19 years too late. Anyway, this isn't about the song "Yesterday" it's about my actual yesterday!

First, I want to say OWWW! Which is to say that I did my exercise and I used my new workout DVD. I picked up Jillian Michaels "Blast Fat and Boost Your Metabolism" and OH MY GOSH THAT WAS HARD!! I didn't finish. I did the warm up and 2.5 of the 7 circuits she has. Today, my thighs, especially the back of my thighs, hurt! Unlike when my calves hurt, at least I can walk without pain. It's just squatting or doing anything that includes bending my knees deep that hurts.

So I did my exercise. One marker toward my goal.

I also filled up my bookshelf. I am renowned for procrastinating, even on things I want to do, so doing this right away is a big thing for me. I also found a bunch of books I had either forgotten I had or thought I got rid of. One of those is a book on SEO that I got for free at the L.A. Times Festival of Books last year. The guy gave it to me, telling me it was about online writing. I just started working for Demand and thought this could help me do more. Then I saw it and thought "this doesn't matter for what I do". Well that was only sort of true! I was still of the mind that it was fairly useless when we moved last June, but something caused me to keep the book and now I'm glad I did! I have a new book to read, one that hopefully will help me here.

Another thing I found was my control journal from the FlyLady. It's mostly filled out, but I need to update it to fit our new schedule. Still, it was exciting to find it so that I don't have to redo it all.

I did my work for Demand that I should have gotten done yesterday, but not my work for Suite 101 or my own writing. Since Demand pays quickly, they have priority and yesterday priority won.

Beautiful G signed up for basketball in early November and we still hadn't heard anything. I've called a couple times to be told "you'll hear soon". Well I remembered and called again yesterday. I finally talked to the person in charge (the first time in all my calls) and found out that it was supposed to start yesterday at 5! Nobody had called me prior to this, so I started planning my day around that, including not making french bread (AGAIN!). Then I got a call at 3:30, since the coach couldn't reach most of the parents, she moved it to next Monday.

So I got one goal completely done, I am on track for one and behind on everything else. And today is questionable on what I'll get done, since Sunshine and I have to drive about 45 minutes (one way, so 1.5 hours round trip) while Beautiful G is in school just to get a piece of paper copied since my scanner won't work without a USB cable and we seem to only own mini-USBs now. How did we get rid of all of our USB cables when we got rid of our desktop??? Am I nuts??? Well, here's to getting as much done as possible!

Free Kaplan eBooks

I'm a huge fan of reading and learning, which is why this freebie jumped out at me and I wanted to share.

Through January 10, 2011, Kaplan is offering free eBooks through the Nook. If you don't have a Nook (like me), you can get it for your iPad, iPhone, Android, or PC. Kaplan also offers the books through the Sony eReader if you have that instead.

As I've been going through the books, most of them are geared towards high school and above, including quite a few books to study for your master's degree and the GRE.

Go take a look here and see if you can find any books you might want to read!