By akaney on

I just came across a novel website, http://www.paperbackswap.com/index.php and was wondering if anyone has ever attempted to do anything like this in drupal. I have a little drupal experience, but would not know where to start on building a module like this.

I am thinking that it would not be difficult, you would need to allow users to be able to add or delete books that they have available, and create a master list of all the users books. All the shipping would be done off of the site, so there would not be a need for e-commerce.

Paperbackswap has a point system, where users are only able to trade a certain number of books/ number they have available. I think that this is a little limiting, however it may come in useful for some scenarios.

Another idea of using this module in a different way is http://danecountytimebank.org/ where instead of swapping books, people swap their time and skills.

Am I out on a limb here, or are their other people who could use a module like this?

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masande’s picture

masande commented

did you ever find out any more info about this idea? i would love to do the same but have never put together a module.

mark me down as *interested*

Mark Sanders
Q Collective

iovanalex’s picture

iovanalex commented

i;m interested too in something similar;
do you have any progress on this project ? how you implemented that ?

thanks,

alex.

grifcha’s picture

grifcha commented

also throwing my interest down here - I'm currently involved in a creating a site that will be a peer-to-peer, or 'distributed', book (and other items) borrowing social network.