Did you spend a fortune importing foreign language books and you want to pass them on to someone else, all while benefiting Natively? Or are you looking for books and hoping someone that someone in your region has one looking for a new home? Read on…
Post books you’d like to swap / give away in this thread! I started this last year to give away some Japanese books in return for donations to Natively, and others said they would like to as well. Of course, it’s up to each person if they need money for the books / shipping. Please exchange details via PM, don’t add private info here.
Edit the table below: add any books you would like to give away so people can easily find them. (or a link to a custom list on Natively with books to give away, or link to your response below with details)
Make a post with details to bump the thread.
Wait for someone to contact you to send the book!
If it gets unwieldy we can find other ways to organise this - please feel free to do that if you have a better idea
Any language!
You can edit these - add your language if it’s not already here:
Hello everyone, I have several Japanese books I’d like to give away in return for a donation to Natively. You can donate to Natively here (Patreon) and here (Ko-fi).
I’d like to keep it as simple as possible, so here’s how it works.
I’ll ship within the EU for now
If someone knows if it’s cheap to send a flat pack of a couple books from Deutsche Post outside of the EU, then I’ll try it. I just didn’t want to make this complicated with asking people for money for shipping, and there’s a limit to how much I’m willing to pay to ship stuff free.
choose books you want (see list below)
confirm what you’d like here and then PM me your address
once confirmed, make your donation to Natively (suggested 3-10 € per book, but this is up to you!)
I’ll ship the book(s) the next Friday/Saturday
I’m not doing any fancy tracking or anything but I’ve only had one package lost my whole life, so should be ok.
Make sure to check all notes and photos about the condition of books as they range from “like new” to “lots of handwriting (pencil)”
I’ll put in representative pictures so you can see what the marking is like in books that have marks.
Condition - I think this is still fine to learn with, but check out the notes and photos so you can decide if it’s worth it. It’s a steal, though, compared to buying new. This is the 2nd edition, but I don’t think there are huge differences to the 3rd edition.
I didn’t mark up the grammar notes, dialogues, readings, etc aside from a few check marks, so the front half is in pretty good condition
I checked off vocab and kanji with various symbols, so see photos if that will annoy you
Many of the exercises in the back are completed, see photos
You can still get the audio by scanning the bar code in the Oto Navi app, but let me know if you want the CDs and I’ll find them
If nobody else wants it, I‘d be interested in the prefectures book
My secret plan is to visit them all (currently at ~20, I think) and this book might make for an interesting accompaniment
Yay! we go to all this trouble to import Japanese books, it feels nice to pass them on. Feel free to hop on here, if it makes sense we could make the home post a wiki, or make your own thread!
Making it a wiki would be great, as I also have some books I’m looking to get rid of (for which I made a thread a while back: Book/Media Swap (North America版))
That’s interesting, @HopeWaterfall I could move this one to the all languages category and modify it, or does anyone want to go ahead and set up a new one?
Also a fun way of doing it!
I’ll wait to see if someone wants to make a new one, otherwise I’ll make the first post a wiki and include columns for language, person, and target shipping regions, and ask Brandon to make it a wiki!
Your profile has the レギュラー badge when I click your username, which means you should be able to do it for your own post, based on the discourse docs (I have the same level, and can do it for mine)
Book swap and giveaway 
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