Book Reviews Revisited

As my birding library grows, I've acquired a lot of books via trading sites like PaperBackSwap (PBS) and BookMooch (BM), or via thrift shops, used book stores, and festival fundraisers. Acquiring books this way makes the obsessive book-collecting part of this hobby a bit more affordable. Publisher review copies help, too! So far I've reviewed 19 books on this blog, most in 2010, and I thought it would be interesting to see where they all came from (and where they are now).

Purchased new or used [2/8 remain in library]:

• Of a Feather (new) [traded out via PBS]
• The Curse of the Labrador Duck (new) [signed book remains in library]
• Good Birders Don’t Wear White (new) [traded out via PBS]
• The Beak of the Finch (used) [traded out via PBS]
• How to Be a Bad Birdwatcher (used) [traded out via PBS]
• To See Every Bird on Earth (new) [traded out via PBS]
• Going Wild: Adventures with Birds in the Suburban Wilderness (used) [traded out via PBS]
• The American Bird Conservancy Guide to Bird Conservation (new) [signed book remains in library]

Received from publisher [6/6 remain in library]:

• Birds of Europe (Princeton Field Guides) [remains in library]
• Birds of Australia [remains in library]
• Nightjars of the World [remains in library]
• Birds of the West Indies [remains in library]
• Parrots of the World [remains in library]
• Birds of the Middle East [remains in library]

Received via PaperBackSwap or BookMooch [1/5 remains in library]:

• The Big Year (PBS) [remains in library.]
• Beware the Tufted Duck (PBS) [traded out via BM]
• Birding Babylon: A Soldier’s Journal from Iraq (PBS) [traded out via PBS]
• Kingbird Highway (BM) [traded out via PBS]
• The Search for the Pink-headed Duck (PBS) [pending trade-out via PBS or BM]

So that leaves 9 of 19 remaining in my library. That's not too bad - it means more room for new books - like the ones Santa brought the other day. :) How do you get your bird books?