Book Crossing: where you can release books into the wild.

[japple]

http://www.bookcrossing.com/home

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Book Crossing: where 835,134 people in over 130 countries come to share their passion for books with the world. Where books take on a life of their own. How? It's easy.

BookCrossing is earth-friendly, and gives you a way to share your books, clear your shelves, and conserve precious resources at the same time. Through our own unique method of recycling reads, BookCrossers give life to books. A book registered on BookCrossing is ready for adventure.

Leave it on a park bench, a coffee shop, at a hotel on vacation. Share it with a friend or tuck it onto a bookshelf at the gym -- anywhere it might find a new reader! What happens next is up to fate, and we never know where our books might travel. Track the book's journey around the world as it is passed on from person to person.

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All you have to do is find a book you want to release, download and print a label from the Book Crossing website, and paste it in the book, then choose your place to set it free. Hopefully, it will be found by one who will read it and go to the website to post a "found" notice.

When I lived in a college town, I released a book at the local Cash Points on campus. It was discovered by a student who did go to the website and post a found notice saying that it looked interesting but she didn't think she would read it and might pass it on to her sister, so the journey ended there. On the otherhand, there are good reviews on the site and it's fun to see just where these books end up.

[NMDemDist2]

1. i found one in the rest room of a national park and released it into a bus

of tourists

i need to check on it's progress.....

[japple]

2. Hey girl! So nice to see you here and there. How's your back?

n/t

[NMDemDist2]

3. back has been good

once i stopped trying to do two jobs and just worried about my own

:rofl:

Happy New Year :hi:

[LWolf]

4. I release some books each year

weeding my collection to make room for new stuff.

I've been doing so for about 7 years now.

[TheDebbieDee]

5. This Bookcrossing.com thing sounds like WheresGeorge.com,

a currency-tracking site. I haven't visited there in months..........

[Curmudgeoness]

6. Sounds like a great idea, and fun. Thanks for the heads up. nt

[tigereye]

7. what a great idea!

thanks for posting about it! :hi: