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……Books. While the DVD rental market is well-established, book rentals aren’t – at least not yet. Sure, you can borrow a book from your nearest library, but newer titles tend to be limited and items typically need to be returned in a couple of weeks.

With Bookswim (www.bookswim.com) though, you join a club and order books online from a selection of over 200,000. Your selections are delivered to your door and you simply return them when read and get new ones in return.

Unlike the public library, there’s no late fee if you don’t finish the book within three or four weeks. You can keep them until you’re done, and then send them back. Bookswim takes care of shipping costs and include a pre-paid return bag with every shipment.

Of course, you have to pay a monthly fee to join. The cheapest plan lets you read up to two books at a time for $15 per month. If you’ve got more readers in your family, the 11 books at a time plan might prove to be the better deal – at $36 per month……..

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Summer is a great time for picking up those books you can never seem to get to during the rest of the year. I know many of you are working your way through your reading lists, and this month, I’m giving away something that I hope will make your Summer reading experience even more delightful.

Every week this month, I’m giving away a $150 credit toward a membership at BookSwim, which is a Netflix-type service for books. You can use the credit any way you want: Get five books at a time for six months, two books at a time for almost a year, whatever combination you prefer! You can read more about how the service works over here.

All you have to do to enter is log in to your TeamSugar account and take this quiz about recent bestsellers. It doesn’t matter how you score — just by taking the quiz, you’re entered! You must take the quiz before 5 p.m. PDT on Sunday, July 13. If you don’t win, don’t worry — I’ll post a new quiz each Monday till the end of July. If you don’t have a TeamSugar account, what are you waiting for? Go here to sign up. For the official rules, click here — and good luck!