Beach Book Swap

I was reading my Better Homes and Gardens magazine yesterday and came across this really cool idea.

The article started off talking about a "beach book." You know the ones you blow through while on vacation when you haven't read any other books all year, but suddenly have the time during vacations and holidays. I have those books. They are not normally books I want to hang on to nor will ever read again, but they were good and I hate to get rid of them.

BHG's fun solution is a beach-book swap. They recommend inviting friends over for cocktails and appetizers and asking them to bring their easy-to-read paperbacks. You then arrange these books on the table, so that everyone has a chance to browse through them and stock up on some new material. Sounds fun!

If you'd rather not have people over or don't want to admit you read trashy paperbacks, you can join an online book club like paperbackswap.com, where you earn credits by sending your used books to people who request them. You then redeem the credits to order whatever books you want to spend quality "sand time" with next.