I was checking out various offers and ideas for what dads might want to do for 2009, and I stumbled across BookSwim, a site that lets you rent books and give them back when you’re done. It’s like Netflix for books, which seemed pretty cool to me, and further, they had children’s books. If you’re like me, you have mountains of books in your collection, and some are, let’s say, never going to be read more than once. Maybe renting’s a way to save a bit of loot?

The other services that I use like that are Blockbuster and Netflix for movies, and I really think that the GameFly video game rentals are a great idea, too. It’s rare that you play a game after you solve it (maybe with the exception of things like Super Mario Galaxy and similar for the Wii), or Halo 3 for Xbox 360. So why not rent?

There are plenty of things worth owning, but with books and video games, it makes sense to just rent them and give them back when you’re done.

What do you think?