Comments on: Book Swim: The Netflix for bookworms

By: Jason A Clark

Jason A Clark — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:26:13 +0000

I love books too. I love to own them. Of course, I love to read them even more which is why I go to the library… A good library has more books than I could ever read so I’m not sure I could make good use of Book Swim. Then again, a good library has lots of DVDs too.

I wrote about Dumbledore on my site. JK Rowling Outs Gay “Harry Potter” Character, Author’s Subversive Plot Becomes Clear I don’t think everyone agrees with my assessments, but that’s okay.

I actually thought Netflix had much quicker delivery time as far as the mailed movies go. But how can they compete with Blockbuster’s ability to let you trade in the movie you received in the mail for one in the store. That is the reason Blockbuster is better (in my opinion). Of course, with higher prices and limited in-store trade ins I’m not sure it’s going to be quite as good.

By: D.L. White

D.L. White — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:51:25 +0000

This is an interesting idea…if only Shawn and I didn’t love to collect books, mark them up, re-read them, etc. We have run out of bookshelves in our house! I think instead of having a new home built, we’ll just use the books and stack them up as walls and build us a weird bookreader hovel. lol

And to show what a complete and total nerd I am…I have written in the margins and made notes in several Stephen King books (back in the day when I started to realize that even his “regular” horror novels were all connected to the Dark Tower world) and in my Dracula and Anne Rice books (being a vamp-lit connoiseur), but did not make any notes in the Harry Potter books.

Speaking of which – what do you think about Rowling’s revelation that Dumbledor is gay? There have been some hilarious and thoughtful discussions/posts online about the issue.

Also – I would be curious to hear why you think Blockbuster is better than Netflix. And seeing the amount of comments here about it, it looks like you definitely need to write that post.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:17:05 +0000

I didn’t even realize I got the game exchange as a discounted rate…

By: Jason A Clark

Jason A Clark — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:11:33 +0000

Mine sounds the same (well, sounded the same) except I only get one bonus movie or game rental e-coupon a month. I’m also not sure about the in-store game exchange as I only ever get movies.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:25:19 +0000

Here is what my plan looks like, like I said, I think we got grandfathered in on a few things:

BLOCKBUSTER Total Access Premium

Your Plan:
$17.99 / month (plus taxes)
3 at-a-time, unlimited mailings
unlimited in-store free movie/discounted game exchanges
+2 FREE bonus Movie or Game Rental E-Coupon / Month

By: Jason A Clark

Jason A Clark — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:17:46 +0000

It was an email. As far as I know we haven’t gotten anything in the mail. But I don’t think they ever send anything in the mail except the movies. You might want to keep an eye on your bank account if you have have it set up for automatic deductions.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:09:01 +0000

Well, I wont say for 100% if I did or not…because I could have missed it. Was it an email or something? How long ago?

I know that we’ve been with them for a very LONG time, so we were kind of grandfathered in on some of the deals we had from the start.

By: Jason A Clark

Jason A Clark — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:43:26 +0000

You didn’t get the same notice? Wow. I guess I was just assuming that the rates were going up for everyone. Well, now I’m really not happy. LOL I can’t believe I didn’t consider that I was being singled out for my abusive use of their DVDs. I actually had the nerve to use the service to my full advantage. What was I thinking?

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:44:51 +0000

I commented over there saying I get why Blockbuster has to do that, but I still think despite all that, the in-store rentals and the free coupons are so worth it.

I mean, my Blockbuster is less than 2 miles away…its’ so easy to run and get a free movie anytime really.

I guess if I watched a TON of movies a month, I could see it being an issue.

Still Jason, it’s interesting that you got that and I didn’t…they must really pay attention to those accounts taking advantage of it.

By: Jason A Clark

Jason A Clark — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:31:14 +0000

I could have said that Cap’n…I should have… But I’ve seen the other side…how do I go back now? How do I go back to my 3 movies at a time with no in-store trade ins and one free movie rental per month coupon that I never get to redeem because I don’t have time to watch that many movies? How? I don’t know if I can do it.