Do you check every page of a book before you mark it received?  I got a book about 2 weeks ago and I thumbed through the pages of it and it looked find.  It has definitely been read several times but still postable.  Well I am now in the middle of reading this book and I have come across a page that has a chunk taken out of the bottom of the page right up to the words.  All the words are still there but most of the bottom of the page is missing. 

I do like you do Aaron, I just skim them. I have eaten a few credits by finding a book unpostable later (one looked like spaghetti supper time was around pg #200), but I figure that if I can't find it with a few riffles through the book, the sender may have missed it too.

I just thumb thru it too a couple of times to make sure it looks okay.  I don't go page by page so I could miss something like that too.  Sender may have missed it also, maybe it was a book someone gave them to post and they never read it.

I don't check them at all. As long as they don't fall apart when I unwrap them or smell like animal urine, I mark them received and move on.

ewwwww Brcfan - that was a visual

I do what you do - I skim through, if I can't see any problems they were too small for the sender to pick up on and if they didn't read the book, they wouldn't have known.

If the book looks to be in pretty good shape when I open it, I may quickly thumb through it to see if anything jumps out at me.  But so far, I haven't really seen anything and in that case, if I didn't see I doubt if the sender caught it. 

Tina

Also a skimmer  

I do a quick check also.

And I've been caught out when about to mail books out - I was given 3 boxes of books from different friends all leaving Hawaii, I skimmed them, posted the 'postable' ones and then did a double check when they were requested.  In a few cases although the books were very readable they shouldn't really have been posted - in those cases I PMd the requestor and each time they requested the book to be sent anyway.

Most members act in good faith and we're human so these things happen.

I wouldn't go so far as to say I check every single page, but I do more than just one passing skim.  I've eaten a few too many credits to just give the book a glance over before marking.  I take my time, thumb thru slowly, and more than once.  I would classify it as a very careful perusal.  If I miss something after that level of inspection, I figure the sender could have missed it too. 

I wouldn't say I check every page, but I do a fairly thorough check, ruffling through the pages a couple of times scanning for writing or stains or whatever. And I do check to see that the ISBN matches what I ordered.

Cheryl

I do a good look through but probably not every page. More then just skimming as I look for cheeto prints :)

I think we've probably all been bitten by the steath unpostable. I got one that seemed okay, then when I read it turned out to have chunks apparently taken out with a hole punch. It's annoying, but considering how much I hate confrontations anyway, perhaps I'm better off not noticing until after I've marked it received.

Many of the books I post are on members' Wish Lists.  I pick them up at the local Goodwill and have never read them.  I only pick books that are in near new condition and I check them pretty throughly, but one time I missed a few pages that looked slightly water damaged.  The person requested their credit back which I promptly did, but it taught me to really check out the books I'm sending.  As for the books I've received, I only skim over the pages since most of them are staying in my collection - I don't tend to re-post books I've requested; they're ones I want to keep.