Indonesians Who Love English Books discussion
Book swapping
I'm up for this! I have a few books I actually want to give away or sell at a discount but am too lazy to post them on amazon or yahoo. This seems like a great idea!
@sanshow where you live at? Indonesia, right? I think if you want to sell the book, you can do it via FB or Twitter or maybe you can contact some local web who sell secondhand import book such as book centre.Great idea, Dini!
Ren wrote: "@sanshow where you live at? Indonesia, right? I think if you want to sell the book, you can do it via FB or Twitter or maybe you can contact some local web who sell secondhand import book such as b..."Thanks Ren for the info! I'll try to explore those avenues :)
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When we can start? I think better if we make list for book that we plan to swap. I will wait for the list and see if there's any interesting books
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Cool, I'll make my list sometime this weekend. sanshow, aside from swapping or selling, you can also donate English books to groups such as Drive Books, Not Cars.
Alright, I'll draw up a list too next week.Dini, thanks for the suggestion!
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My list to swap so far:
7 Kinds of Ordinary Catastrophes by Amber Kizer (I won this from giveaway, not my kind of reading)
Icefire by Chris d'Lacey
Savvy by Ingrid Law (got it from giveaway, it was signed by the author)
Loser/Queen by Jody L. Anderson (again, giveaway)
Darkest Mercy (ARC) by Melissa Marr (giveaway again :D)
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Graveminder by Melissa Marr
Buried Fire by Jonathan Stroud
I think there are still some more books but I need to check them again.
Here's my list of swappable books:The Girl Who Leapt Through Time by Yasutaka Tsutsui (paperback) - reserved by Biondy
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (paperback)
Atonement by Ian McEwan (movie tie-in edition, paperback) - reserved by asdewi
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore (paperback)
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (paperback)
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (paperback)
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (paperback)
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (paperback) - reserved by asdewi
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence (BBC TV tie-in edition, paperback)
The Nanny Diaries by Nicola Kraus & Emma McLaughlin (movie tie-in edition, paperback)
American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar (large paperback)
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (paperback)
@Dini: aah.. I want your The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. I've added it in my to-read before, but then remove it :pbut now I want to read it again.
I'm going to list my books soon. Hopefully you want to swap it with a book from my list :D
Edit:
Here is my list:
Altar of Eden – James Rollins
Blessings – Anna Quindlen
Book of My Mother – Albert Cohen
Confessions of Love (different cover) - Uno Chiyo
Ghost Country – Patrick Lee
Grave Secret – Charlaine Harris
Island Beneath the Sea – Isabel Allende
King Lear - William Shakespeare
The Accidental Tourist – Anne Tyler
The Gunslinger – Stephen King
Three Quarters Dead (hardcover) - Richard Peck
will add some books in the future.
p.s: the book with strikethrough means that the book is not with me anymore.
@ dini : i want "the atonement" and "something wicked this way come" please. But i haven't got time to list my swapable books. Hopefully i could do that next week
@Biondy: OK, saving The Girl Who Leapt Through Time for you. I can't decide whether I want to swap it with Island Beneath the Sea or Blessings, though. Which one do you think is better? @A.S. Dewi: Reserving those two books for you. Hopefully I'll find something I like from your collection. :)
@Dini: to be honest, I can't compare them as I haven't read Island Beneath the Sea :))I bought it like 6 months ago and haven't read it at all. I like Blessings. Here is my review for Blessings
I'm on holiday at the moment so I only have two:*
* Possession by AS Byatt
If anyone wants them, with or without swap as I'm keen to offload them to reduce my luggage, I'm more than happy to send them out anywhere in Indonesia.
My list (more to be added when I gather more books):The Postcard Killers - James Patterson*
Stalking the Enemy - Jane Prowse
Curse of the Diamond Daggers - Jane Prowse
The Stockholm Octavo - Karen Engelmann reserved by Dini
In The Miso Soup - Murakami Ryu**
The Dim Sum of All Things - Kim Wong Keltner*
Agatha Christie**
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd reserved by Biondy
The Mystery of the Blue Train
Murder on the Orient Express
Dead Man's Folly
The ABC Murders
Cards on the Table
Curtain
Sparkling Cyanide
Non-fiction
The Adventure Capitalist: Camels, Carpets and Coffee: How Face-To-Face Trade Is the New Economics - Conor Woodman
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness - Richard H Thaler
Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way - Richard Branson
I'd prefer to meet somewhere to swap the books as I'm too lazy to get padded envelopes and then send them through post.
*These are really books that aren't my thing so if anyone wants them, I'd be happy to give them away.
**Books to be swapped on a lending basis
@Biondy: I think I'll go with Island Beneath The Sea.@sanshow: I'd like The Stockholm Octavo, please. Are there any books you'd like from my list? (OOT but I didn't realize it was TOP in your profile pic until I looked closer!)
I'd love a group meet up for us all to swap our books. :) Any suggestions on the place?
Dini wrote: "@Biondy: I think I'll go with Island Beneath The Sea.@sanshow: I'd like The Stockholm Octavo, please. Are there any books you'd like from my list? (OOT but I didn't realize it was TOP in your pro..."
I'd probably swap it with The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai :)
Yeah isn't he cute haha.
As for a meet up, perhaps somewhere convenient for most would be central area? Open to suggestions!
@sanshow: You got it!I would suggest places (i.e. malls?) around Sudirman/Thamrin, they would be easy to reach by most.
@Dini: ok, I'll keep it for you. I'll send it probably in mid January as I am at Makassar right now and the book is at Surabaya
@Sanshow: ahh. I want your "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" (maybe sell it with second hand price if you don't wanna swap). But you don't do delivery, huh >w<
@Sanshow hi, I'm really interested in your Agatha Christie's collection hehe :D just let me know which place you prefer to meet. malls around sudirman/thamrin are okay :D
These are my list for swappable books. Most of them are crime/thriller genreNon Fiction :
- The King's Concubine by Anne O'Brien
- Maharanis by Lucy Moore
- Positive Words, Powerful Results: Simple Ways to Honor, Affirm, and Celebrate Life by Hal Urban
- Colossus: The Price of America's Empire by Niall Ferguson
- Faceless by Martina ColeRingolevio: A Life Played for Keeps by Emmett Grogan
- How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
Fiction :
- Sole Survivor by Derek Hansen
- Paths of Glory by Jeffrey Archer
- The Killables by Gemma Malley
- The Demon's Surrender by Sarah Rees Brennan
- Scimitar SL-2 by Patrick Robinson
- The Cobra by Frederick Forsyth
- As the Crow Flies by Jeffrey Archer
- When Strangers Marry by Lisa Kleypas
- Somewhere I'll Find You by Lisa Kleypas
- The Empty Chair by Jeffery Deaver
- The Hostage Room by Lynne Heitman
- Guardians of Paradise by Jaine Fenn
- The Spy by Clive Cussler & Justin Scott
- Open House by Elizabeth Berg
- The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman
- Five Days to Die by Katia Lief
- The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card
- Crime by Irvine Welsh
- Brethren by Robyn Young
- 11th Hour by James Patterson
- Lennox by Craig Russell
- The Barbary Pirates by William Dietrich
- Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
- The Iron House by John Hart
- The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly
- Bombproof by Michael Robotham
- Miracle Cure by Harlan Coben
- Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
Also you can check my "available for swap" shelf. There are some indonesian books there : http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/...
@Dini : If there's nothing you like from my collection, would you wanna sell your books to me? Really want the Ray Bradburry's book & the Atonement
@A.S. Dewi: I'm interested in How to Be a Woman. For the second book I'm willing to sell. :)
Mita wrote: "I'm on holiday at the moment so I only have two:* Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
* Possession by AS Byatt
If anyone wants them, with or without swap as I'm keen to offload them to reduce my l..."
I'm interested in Shantaram. Do you still have it?
Biondy wrote: "@Dini: aah.. I want your The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. I've added it in my to-read before, but then remove it :pbut now I want to read it again.
I'm going to list my books soon. Hopefully you..."
Biondy, I really want your Northanger Abbey to complete my Jane Austen's collection, but I have no book to swap. Would you like to sell it?
Happy new year everyone! @Biondy: ohh...you're in luck because I'm planning to send some things overseas probably end of this week or early next week, so send me a pm with your address and I'll send over the book to you :)
@Dini & @Ainun: I'll send you girls my contact no. once I get my phone reactivated and we can arrange for a meet-up :)
@Nabila: I need to check the book first. I'll contact you around 5 January, ok :)@sanshow: thanks for the reply :D I've been searching for the book for the last 1,5 year. glad to find it at last :D
Nabila wrote: "I'm interested in Shantaram. Do you still have it?"Sorry, I sent it out on Wednesday. Should've crossed it off my list but didn't have a proper computer!
hi, I'm new to this discussion. is it okay to just borrow without swapping? in case i found, or you found, things you wanna read, but cannot agree on anything to swap with? [forgive my lack of capital letters, too lazy to use shift key]
Sorry I haven't followed up on this. Was distracted by floods earlier this year, and then work got in the way. :(For Biondy, sanshow and asdewi, if you're still interested in swapping the books, I can: a) bring the book(s) during next month's meet up if you're in Jakarta and you're coming to the meet up, or b) if not I can send the books to you.
Lala, I think borrowing/lending books is a good idea too.
Update on borrowing books: I've updated books I'm willing to lend in my 'lendable' shelf. If anyone wants to borrow I can bring em during meet ups. :)http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/...
Hello, I am new to this threat.I just recently move from a big house to Appartement, surely signinificant space comppression. What is compressed almost to non existance is my library/reading room. so... I have about 500 fiction and nonfiction Hardcover books I like to sell. Since I am in love with my books, cause I like to read over and over or reffer them. It's breaking my heart that I have to part with them. But I make a commitment to convert them to digital. hence I have to buy them again.
So why I am writing this?
Question to moderator, can I use this threat to sell my books. Surely someone, in this digital world, still the joy to read a "real" books.
Please comment friends
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Uhh....Reza, Where can I find this folder?
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If you still cant find it, you can just create your thread. I'll move it accordingly later.
Reviving this thread ;-)I recently went through my collection and I found some books I want to swap/sell.
I won't list it here since it's over a hundred books:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/20495277-anny?shelf=to-sell-or-swap
Some of them are translated-to-Indonesian version. Since I don't live in Jabodetabek, any request will have to be done via postal service (I prefer JNE myself). Feel free to ask me if you're interested in any of my books.
Thanks!
I can vouch for Anny; we did a swap and she sold some as well. The books arrived today (from Java to Bali) and were in a good condition, a bit yellowed but she told me that beforehand. She has quite a collection to select from ;) I found some great ones that I've wanted to read for a while.Anny wrote: "Reviving this thread ;-)
I recently went through my collection and I found some books I want to swap/sell.
I won't list it here since it's over a hundred books:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/l..."
@Praesenti: Thank you! That's very nice of you to write this. Oh and I also want to tell you that your book has arrived yesterday, and it's in a good condition too. I'm super happy! Finally I can get my hands on The Knife of Never Letting Go! Can't wait to read it. Thanks a lot! XD
Anny wrote: "@Praesenti: Thank you! That's very nice of you to write this. Oh and I also want to tell you that your book has arrived yesterday, and it's in a good condition too. I'm super happy! Finally I can g..."Glad it arrived safely, hope you'll enjoy it! Sorry 'bout the late reply...
Hey Redwin... Are you still selling your books?
Hi! Anyone still interested in swapping books?Here's my list of books I want to swap or sell (they're not much, but I hope you're interested):
to swap or sell shelf
Some of them are in Indonesian (perhaps anyone will also be interested) and I prefer to swap or sell some books as a whole series (such as The Wolves of Mercy Falls Trilogy, Ingo Chronicles, or The Selection Trilogy). Most of them are in a really good condition.
Thanks a bunch. :)
@Gabrielle: I do! I do!Here's my list: To sell or swap
I'm kind of interested in your Kite Runner (is it the English version?), so it'd be great if you can find something to swap/buy from my collection *grin*
@Gabrielle : can I buy your The Book of Lost Things and The Graveyard Book ?@Anny : I'm interested in some of your books... :)
@Gabrielle: I'm interested on your Selection Trilogy. Wonder if you are interested to swap with some of my books from my to sell or swap
@Anny : these are the books I'm interested to Island Beneath the Sea
The Prisoner of Heaven
Fatherland
Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Kronik Kematian yang Telah Diramalkan
Kisah Lisey - Lisey's Story
The Stand
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I thought maybe we can list the books we want to swap and look over other people's lists, then make deals on which book(s) we want to swap with which. If you're located in Jabodetabek, I'm open to meeting up in person to exchange the books. If you're outside the city or abroad, maybe we can send the books.
Does this sound viable? Looking forward to your thoughts.