Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Help Center - Finding Books for a Box-O-Books swap

Search Terms:

Finding Books for a Box-O-Books swap

From the Box-O-Books area

  • Place your cursor over Community on the main toolbar at the top of any page on the site
  • click Box-O-Books in the menu that drops down.
  • You will be taken to the Box-O-Books area.  On this page:
    • You can search all Boxer bookshelves by title, author or ISBN in the first field
      • you can limit your search results by Large Print, binding type and genre
    • You can browse all Boxer books by genre in the Browse by Genre field (choose a genre from the dropdown menu, and select from subgenres that open to the right)
    • You can choose a specific Boxer by entering that Boxer's first name or Nickname in the Boxers field
    • He can check out new Boxers' bookshelves from the links under the Boxer search field

From the Forums or PBS Profiles

  • If you see the Boxer icon on a Forum Post or PBS Profile:
    • you can browse the Boxer's bookshelf by clicking
    • If you find books you want, you can go to the Box-O-Books area and search for that Boxer by nickname or first name to offer a Box to him or her
  • When you are in the Box-O-Books area, you can offer a Box-O-Books

From a Request:

  • If you see the Boxer icon on the Order Book page, you can click to see that member's bookshelf
  • If you find more books you want, you can go to the Box-O-Books area (clicking away from the Order page without completing it will stop the request-for-credit process) and search for the Boxer by first name, or search for the book to find that a bookshelf with that book on it.
  • From the Box-O-Books area, you can offer a Box-O-Books swap.

Related Links

Box-O-Books Tutorial
Making a Box-O-Books offer
Requestor Conditions and Box-O-Books
FAQs about using Box-O-Books