For cost-conscious readers who want to trade, borrow or buy books, here’s a few budget solutions:

1.Booksfree.com is a quick and simply way of having access to over 150,000 titles from classics to new releases. With free shipping both ways, no due dates or late fees, Booksfree.com is an easy solution for you and your family. Choose from bestsellers, biographies, inspirational, science fiction, adventure, cooking, self-help, travel and much more. Memberships start at just $9.99 and you can cancel anytime. Create your list of books online and Booksfree will mail them to you. Keep them as long as you like and return them free in a pre-paid envelope. Booksfree.com allows you to create a queue so you don’t have to worry what will arrive next.

2. Post books you’d like to exchange on bookmooch.com and whenever one of 100,000-plus moochers request one, you’ll earn a point for mailing it. Redeem each point for any of the million-plus titles in the BookMooch inventory. All you pay is the postage.

3. Bookswim.com lets you organize a “pool” of titles you’d like to rent (just like a Netflix queue); for $20 to $40 a month. You’ll receive 2 or more at a time. Shipping is included in the subscription fee and you can buy any BookSwim rental at the click of a button.

4. You can trade hardcovers at paperbackswap.com. Also get weekly updates on newly available titles.

5. On Swaptree.com, you can trade the books you have for the books you want, for FREE, swap your books for video games, CDs and DVDs, iInstantly see all the books you can receive in trade, print postage right from your compute, discover new books and authors and recycle, reuse and reduce your carbon footprint