I have the following titles in paperback that I am willing to lend to anyone who asks. I will mail one to you and ask that you either mail it back, or mail it to the next person who wants to borrow it. I have seen this done on another board.
Here’s how it goes. If you want to borrow one, post a reply requesting it. Then send me a PM with the info I need to send it to you. Don’t put any personal info in a post. Agree to keep it for no longer than thirty days (more or less) and to return it to me, or to send it to the next person who wants to read it. I can do this only in North America, due to cost. Wouldn’t be worth international rates. Hopefully, others have books to lend, some near you if you live outside North America.
Anyone else who has a book to lend, please post it. We can read these books for the cost of mailing, which isn’t more than a couple of bucks, I think, and without adding to the pile of once-read and unread paberbacks in our rooms. The owner keeps track of the book. If this catches on, maybe we can do something with CD’s or whatnot.
Any subsequent requests for the same book should be posted, to establish the chronology of requests. Anything else should usually be a PM, to keep the thread as clean as possible.
I would consider a straight-up swap, if anyone wants that.
The titles are:
Selections from the Writings of Kierkegaard
Rousseau’s Social Contract
Wittgy’s On Certainty
Wittgy’s Lectures and Conversations
Wittgy’s Blue and Brown Books
S Langer, Intro to Symbolic Logic
Dewey’s Reconstruction in Philosophy.
It’s the honor system, yes. But a thing is just a thing, in the end. If someone gets a chance to read a book that they wouldn’t have otherwise, it’s all to the good. Besides, I just bought these books for the sole pupose of lending them out. Thought it would be fun.
Take that as a challenge, extra-book-hording-people.
I’ve purchased Pirsig’s Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintainance five or six times. Every time I lend it out it ends up not coming back. But I don’t mind; the book was so influential to me that I like give friends the same chance to enjoy it.
You know if folks set up a P.O. box, no personal info would have to be given to a stranger if you get nervous about that. P.O boxes are cheap enough. You don’t even have to use your real name you can set the P.O. Box up with your name plus a made up one. It is done all the time.Just P.M. with a P.O. and your false name and that is that.
Faust, I would do it but my books are not just mine. I share with family ownership of books. No can do. but, that tip ought to help increase interest.
Sending books overseas is indeed too expensive, unless it is a direct swap and the cost of shipping is comparable to the cost of the book (second hand). Or if multiple books are exchanged simultaneously.
I am extremely fond of my book collection (no Zen sentiments here I’m afraid), but there are some less-cherished texts I would be happy to lend out, or even (perhaps preferably), swap. There are also a couple which I am willing to give away if the recipient pays the postage costs.
s - permanent swap or temporary exchange g - give
Here is my list;
The Phenomenology of Perception - Merleau-Ponty - s Why I am Not a Christian - Russell - s The Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty - Eric Matthews - s Basic Philosophical Writings - Levinas - s Introducing Descartes - Dave Robinson and Chris Garrett - g Introducing Wittgenstein - John Heaton and Judy Groves - g The Idiot’s Guide to Philosophy - Jay Stevenson - s Being and Time - Heidegger (Macquarrie/Robinson) - s Leviathan - Hobbes - s Selected Philosophical Writings - Aquinas - s Blackwell Anthology of Epistemology - ed. Sosa and Kim - s
In any case, seeing as I live in Australia, it may well be pointless for me to post a list.
Ditto - Anyway Turkish customs come with flame-throwers for heretical Western works.
I will save some people some money though: Don’t buy “Straw Dogs” - despite the snappy title it’s pointless nihilistic balls.
Anyway - this thread definitely wins “Most despicably altruistic” award - Damn you Faust, how you irritate my theories. What’s in it for you huh…? Tell me now !
Tab - my idea was to get some books into the hands of folks, maybe students, that couldn’t necessarily afford them, but could spend two bucks to mail them, and maybe didn’t live near a good used book store.
And I thought it would be fun.
I was warned that it would be a dismal flop, but “being doomed to certain faliure never stopped Faust Fiore” is my personal motto.
Ucci - I have just returned from the post office. Look for it in a few days, and thanks for playing!
Just as general info for the thousands that read this thread daily, it cost $1.59 to send that book. I have a Basic Writings of Heidegger that I bought for $ .65, but is still in print, for fifteen or twenty bucks new, that might cost $2.50 to mail. Which is what it would cost anyone to read it, as return postage. If you can get it for sixty-five cents, then that’s a better deal. But if you can’t, lending/swapping is pretty cheap.
I’ll lend that one, too, by the way. After you read it, you’ll probably be grateful you didn’t spend twenty bucks for it, I can tell you.
Anyone have Berkeley’s Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous, Principle of Human Knowledge, or any other books by the author. Or Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico Philosophicus.
I can trade for these books, or just to anyone that wants to read the following.
Hume’s An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding
Any book by Nietzsche
Foucault’s The Order of Things
Spinoza’s Ethics
Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
Various medieval philosophy books.
ect.
I’ve got both of those works by Berkeley in a single volume, I think it’s in storage, though- I’m moving. Send me a PM in a few days or something, and I’ll have easy access to it. I have the Tractatus too, here in my hand just now.
You gots any Aristotle? I might be interested in the Hume.
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