First Book Sent Through whatsonmybookshelf.com

I just shipped my first book using What's On My Bookshelf. Unfortunately I had to ship it internationally, to Denmark. On the bright side, Canada Post has a service called "small packets" and shipping small packets by surface mail internationally is really cheap. The book weighted 700g and it cost about $12 including taxes to ship it to Denmark. It will take at least a month to get there though!

That book was worth two points on What's On My Bookshelf, so that means I can get two one-point books in exchange. My first two books will thus cost me about $6 each. That could work out alright.

I still think it is probably more affordable to just give your old books away locally (either to a Salvation Army or a used book store) and then buy books at a used book store. The disadvantage to this is that a used book store may not have a book you want. But this is going to be much cheaper than What's On My Bookshelf, in my opinion. There are several used book stores nearby. We have gone to Tanglewood bookstore before and it was a bit annoying because lots of their book were new or almost new, but the salesman was really helpful.