Great free(ish) book sites

For those who are fed up watching their pay packet go down the Amazon drain whilst their house fills up with books please have a look at these two excellent sites:

www.bookmooch.com/
A nice free book exchange site - minus the posting cost of course. Imagine it - a constant stream of fresh literature without suffocating under the weight of pulped wood.. but if you can't find what you're after, there are always the links to amazon onthe site and our friends and Book Mooch get a little summat for their troubles. Nice.

Here's some of their blurb:
"BookMooch is a community for exchanging used books.

BookMooch lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want.

Give & receive: Every time you give someone a book, you earn a point and can get any book you want from anyone else at BookMooch. Once you've read a book, you can keep it forever or put it back into BookMooch for someone else, as you wish.

No cost: there is no cost to join or use this web site: your only cost is mailing your books to others.

Points for entering books: you receive a tenth-of-a-point for every book you type into our system, and one point each time you give a book away. In order to keep receiving books, you need to give away at least one book for every three you receive."

www.bookcrossing.com
Ok, this one requires a little bit of effort. If you don't fancy the idea of treasure hunting your books across the world (though, lets face it, we could all do with burning some additional calories) then this one might not be for you. However, if you are after a novel way to get your hands on... a novel... then get going!

Here's a synopsis from the site :

"At BookCrossing, you can register any book you have on the site, and then set the book free to travel the world and find new readers.

Leave it on a park bench, at a coffee shop, at a hotel on vacation. Share it with a friend or tuck it onto a bookshelf at the gym -- anywhere it might find a new reader! What happens next is up to fate, and we never know where our books might travel next. Track the book's journey around the world as it is passed on from person to person."