What’s Hot. We are often asked for guidance on what kinds of books are popular at PBS. Well, the tastes of the membership run the gamut, but we see that cookbooks, audiobooks, erotica, Large Print and nonfiction pretty much fly off the shelves. If you have any of these types of books, post them and get a quick request!
What do Gone With the Wind and The Lord of the Flies have in common? Well, two things: they are both on the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century list, and they are both challenged/banned books. No, not challenging: challenged, as in books that groups have tried to remove from school libraries. See the Radcliffe top 100 list (42 of which have been banned/challenged) here. The last week of September is National Banned Books Week. Be daring! Read a banned book. You can read more about Banned Books Week here. Thanks to member Jene (sexymf) for her heads-up about this. Warning: some of these books may be found to be offensive by some members. But many of them are literary classics already, and some of them are sure to be literary classics in the future!
Words and Music. We’re happy to see that more and more of you are taking advantage of the ability to transfer credits between your PBS and SwapaCD accounts. It looks like many of you are off-loading your music CDs and using the credits at PBS to get books; others are swapping their books and getting new music. It’s so easy to transfer credits between the sites: the link to do this is under My Account on the SwapaCD site. If you haven’t joined SwapaCD yet, join now! You don’t have to do anything special to “link” the accounts at registration–when you go to transfer credits, the system will ask you to identify your PBS account. Nothing could be easier.
On the Move? If you are moving house, please remember to update your address information in your Account Settings. It is really important to prevent books from arriving at your old address after you have moved. Media Mail postal rate does not come with automatic forwarding service, and such books would be lost or returned to the sender (usually postage due)! If you have a requested book that hasn’t arrived yet, and your move date is coming up, you can make arrangements with the PO for your OLD zip code to forward your Media Mail (this may entail extra postage-due on arrival). If you have submitted requests that haven’t been mailed yet, please see How to change the mailing address on a request you have already submitted, in the Help Center. And don’t forget to put your account on Hold during the move!
Tags: SwapaCD, Tips & Tricks
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