BookSwim is aiming to be the Netflix for literature. You can draw up your list of books and have them mailed to you (for free). When you’re done you mail’em back (for free), and they mail the next titles on your list. You just pay a monthly fee and read as much as you desire. I really hope this is wildly successful. It could be really dangerous for me, though, as I’ve got about 35 books sitting on the shelf in my to-read queue. Last thing I need is to make it easier.
Michael Stephens shares some good comments:

“Add this to Starbucks book clubs, wifi, and music sales, iTunes movie downloads and “third place” contenders like the aforementioned Starbucks or Panera Bread and you have a whole bunch of services, physical spaces and web sites competing for what libraries used to have a hold on.” Indeed, where will the library fit in? Can’t afford to move too slowly. [via tame the web]