By Deana (PBSDeana) – PaperBackSwap Team
That’s right, it’s our 7th birthday!
We’ve passed some great milestones in the last year including 5 million books posted, the 10 millionth book mailed and received, donating over 32,000 books to schools & 17,500 books to the military. We’ve also swapped hundreds of thousands of books and added plenty of fantastic new features to make the Club even better. We’ve added new members, made new friends, found new authors we never would have tried, played games, laughed and shared and cried with each other, and learned so much along the way. We are delighted to see how the Club has grown and evolved in the past 7 years, and look forward to many more years reading together.
It’s no secret that all of our volunteers and members are what makes PBS the wonderful community it is today. In celebration of all of you that have made the last seven years so incredible, the PBS Team is turning the tables and giving YOU the birthday gifts! We are a group of readers, so of course there’s no better present than book credits!
To enter our Happy Birthday to Us Drawing, just respond to this post and tell us how long you’ve been a member of PBS. If you aren’t sure how long you’ve been a member, you can find it in “My Profile” under “My Account”. If you haven’t chosen a nickname or made a profile yet, now would be a great time. Simply go to “My Account”, choose “Settings” and click “Set Up a Profile”. You can also see the date you joined on each forum post you write.
We will draw 7 responses at random to receive 7 credits each! The contest will end on Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 7:00 pm. We will announce the 7 winners of 7 credits each on Wednesday, September 7, 2011. Do you see a pattern here?
Good luck, and go eat a piece of cake for us!
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Tags: Contests, Free Credits, Milestones
I’ve been a member since 4/3/2010
Happy Birthday Paperbackswap.com!
Proud–and satisified–member since 12/29/2008! I love this site, and I recommend it to all my friends and colleagues. I use it to get books for pleasure, and I’ve used it to track down books that are required for my sons’ high school classes. It’s the best thing since sliced bread! 😉
Oops..I made a mistake. I became a member 2010.
ANd this is still the first place I look before going to the book store; whether it is for my kids at school, their summer reading lists or self interest. READ ON!!
Feliz Cumpleanos PBS!
Been a member since 1/2/2007 …one of the best and profitable websites I’ve joined.
Happy Birthday PBS & many many more.
Happy birthday!
I’ve been a member since 12/7/2008.
LOVE you, PBS!! I’ve been with you awhile…. since 8/1/2006. Happy Birthday!!
I’ve been a member since July 29, 2011. I heard about this site from some friends and decided to check it out. I am glad that I did.
I have been a member since December of 2008. Happy 7th birthday paperbackswap and for great website for swapping books!
I’ve been a member since Feb. 13, 2009 and LOVE PBS!!! Happy Birthday to you!!! I found out about you from Good Housekeeping & you’re my favorite website!!
Happy Bday! I have been a member since 9/30/2007 and am so grateful to have your service! Thank you!
I’ve been a member since August 2009! Someone told me about PBS at my garage sale and I just HAD to check it out! I LOVE PBS!! Happy Birthday!
Grateful Member since 2009 —
Happy Birthday!!!
Happy 7th Birthday PBS! I’ve been a member since 8/8/2009 and I’ve traded 143 books so far! Thanks!
I’ve been a member since August 16th of this year and am only sorry I didn’t hear of this great site earlier! Happy Birthday PBS!
May of 2008
Happy Birthday!
I’ve only been a member for about 5 months now. I am glad there is a site like this out there.
I’ve been a member since 6/17/2007 and it has been a wonderful experience.
Happy Birthday Paperbackswap.com
Happy Birthday PBS!!!!
I’ve been a member since 8/24/2011
I’ve been a member since 8/6/11 and I am loving it!! I am addicted to PBS. Happy Birthday PBS and may you be blessed with many, many more. Thanks for being there for all of us.
Been a member since 10/25/2010. Found this site on FictionDB.com and it’s one of the best ideas I have ever heard of. I love this site.
I have been a member since 10/23/10. I love it here. It’s like a big extended family of readers.
Happy Birthday PBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been a member since 12/15/2006 and honestly don’t know what I would do without this great group of book swappers! My friend Diane turned me onto you and I tell lots of my friends
Thanks for being heree
Valentine’s Day 2008 Is when I became a member and fell in love with Paper Back Swap.
Happy Birthday PBS! What a great gift you’ve been to my life. I’ve been a member since 2007.
~Amy
Happy Birthday paperbackswap.com! I’ve been a member since 7/27/10 and love every exchange, and hope you have many more happy returns to come …
It’s my birthday, too (yeah) ! With PBS, that is. I can’t believe it’s only been ONE WHOLE YEAR since I joined on 8/28/2010. I have more books now than ever but they are books I like and have wanted for ages. THANKS PPB for helping me get my books out to others who will give them good homes or just turn their pages and keep the books happy! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL OF US ! ! !
Happy 7th Birthday! Following the 7’s theme, I joined up on 7/7/07. 😉
I’ve been a member since 9/8/11 and love this site. Thank you Paperback Swap!
I recently celebrated my first birthday with PBS! I’ve been a member since 8/31/2010. Though it feels much longer the way I’ve been telling everybody about how much I love the site. I have become a fully committed PBS addict and proud of it! Thanks, and Happy Birthday Paperback Swap!
Greetings everyone!
I’m CJ – a relatively new “swapper”. I just ‘discovered’ PBS this summer, but have to come to really appreciate it. Through this site, I have found a new way to give, give, give! And that’s important to me because sometimes I don’t always have the BIG BUCKS or the “BIG BLESSINGS” to give to others the way I desire, but this site has given me a new way to increase my giving while ensuring that the recipients get EXACTLY, unmistakenly, what they want – specific books!
SOOOO in honor of your 7th birthday PaperBack Swap, please allow me (via Google translate) to wish you a most HAPPY BIRTHDAY in 7 different languages!
生日快樂! (chinese)
Ծնունդդ շնորհավոր! (arabic)
Tillykke med fødselsdagen! (danish)
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag! (german)
С Днем Рождения! (russian)
feliz Aniversário! (portuguese)
Joyeux anniversaire! (french)
7 is a number of Resurrection, Completeness, Abilities and Protection. As you continue to be an upright and positive club, may you experience within your organization resurrection where things need to be revived and made new; a completeness where there needs to be solidification; the birth of new abilities, plans and ideas; and financial protection and stability for the company as a whole as well as every productive employee.
PBS, thanks for beginning this site, and for keeping things simple for us. And thank You for keeping it free! BLESSINGS to you Paperback Swap! YAY!!! and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!
Happy Birthday! I’m a new member- I just joined June 2011.
I have been a member since 10/1/2009!
Happy Birthday PBS! I hope you just keep getting bigger and stronger. 🙂
I’ve been a member for 4 years. I’ve gotten LOTS of great books, and mailed out quite a few too. This is a great site, thanks so much. And Happy Birthday!
I’ve been a member since 9/8/2007. So thankful for PBS!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday and many more! I have been a member since 8/13/2010.
I have been able to find books that thought I would never obtain. Read books I never thought to pick up. I also had many books which I did not wish to keep or reread but I stubbornly held onto as I did not have a way to pass them on. This is a great site.
I’ve been a member since 10/14/2010. Happy Birthday!!
Member since May 2006. This is the greatest .com site ever! So easy to use and it gets better year after year. Happy Birthday PBS and congrats to the brilliant people who thought of and run this web site.
Member since 7/29/2006! I love it hear and have gotten so many amazing deals and books!
I’ve only been a member since March 2011, but I wish I had joined sooner! Happy B-day, PBS! Thanks for all fantastic books!
I’ve been a member since 7/26/09. Happy Birthday to one of my favorite websites!
I’ve been a member since 4/25/2007 so that’s almost 4 1/2 years. So glad I found this site!
member since April, 2009. PBS is the best!!
I’ve been a member since 5/5/2010. I love it!
I’ve been a member since 9/11/05. Kinda a noteworthy date now that I see it. Happy Birthday–we love this site!
Sylvia
Happy Birthday PBS!! I’ve been a member since October 22, 2009–almost three years now. Love this place! So glad I found it–it’s where I spend most of my internet time now! 🙂
Member since 3/31/2009 and my “to be read” list just keeps getting longer!
8/15/2011 I am new but I do like the site. ^^
I’ve been a member since 2007.
I have been a member since July of 2009.
Not long enough! A couple years now. 🙂