Aug 23, 2007

BookSwim: Netflix for books

Title kind of says it all — check out the BookSwim site here. Anyone try it out yet? I’m very curious to know how well it works. Perhaps the best part of this is the fact that not three days ago Peter and I were having a discussion about how we should start a Netflix for books service. [Via Buzzfeed]

Comments (4)

Aug 23, 2007 Permalink

JeffL:
And this is different than my local library how, exactly?
Aug 23, 2007 Permalink

Ryan Block:
They mail it to you! Oh, and no $0.05 late fees. :)
Aug 24, 2007 Permalink

BookWorm:
Booksfree.com has been renting out paperback and audiobooks for years. If you don’t have access to a good library, give them a try.
Aug 24, 2007 Permalink

Ryan Block:
Who knew! Thanks for the tip, BookWorm.

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7 hours ago

@ryanchris wow. Most importantly, glad you're okay, but wow.

12 hours ago

@ellenleeonline wow, what were you thinking with this hed and lede? http://t.co/hGP1tWn5

14 hours ago

As stoked as I am to be advising @getftw, I'm even more stoked about the new site and the upcoming product itself! http://t.co/odVM2EU1

Feb 7

@hybridZer0 interesting!

Feb 7

@danielaugustine trying not to build this system in PHP if we can help it!

Feb 7

@ceedub yeah, talking tens of millions of requests per day from just one partner, it's a little daunting.

Feb 7

@ceedub er, I should say, one of our partners (not one client). So we need to get their request flood to play a little nicer.

Feb 7

@ceedub hard to expain in 140. Basically our API uses POST instead of GET for some things, and one client generates a LOT of requests.

Feb 7

@majornelson tell [P] of @paulandstorm that @Veronica and I had some huckleberries this morning, and they were still quite delicious.

Feb 7

@davidltaylor peeping, thanks! Sounds like Varnish may be it, unless we do something entirely custom...