Free your books
If you ever tucked a note inside a bottle and threw it into the ocean, or tied a postcard to a balloon and set it aloft, you just might like this:
Here’s how it works:
1. Pick one of your books.
2. Go to BookCrossing.com and click on “register book” under the “member’s links” in the left hand column of each page. Follow the prompts to register the book and generate a BCID (BookCrossing ID).
3. Write the BCID in ink inside the cover. Add a label or write the BookCrossing info. You can add some additional markings, stickers, notes, etc to make the book noticeable, if you wish.
4. Release the book. Where? Almost anywhere! (restaurants, coffee houses, those newspaper boxes for free papers, a bus, hospitals, doctor’s offices, anywhere people have to wait, on top of ATM’s, the DMV, museums, park benches, gyms, etc)
It’s kind of like GeoCaching for people who love books - with a lot less hiking! *grin* I’m going to release a few books into the wild when I’m out running errands later!
September 26th, 2007 at 5:49 am
I’ve been having my mom send books to me here, if they’re a paperback that I have in hardback also, or something I don’t want to keep. I leave them on the palace ‘lending library’ shelves, in the laundry, or wherever.
There’s a ton of romance novels here (seems like female soldiers bring something to read on the plan a lot more than male soldiers) but we can always use stuff like Sci-fi, mystery, non-fiction, whatever.
There’s no bookstore or real library, and the PX doesn’t have much- it’s pathetic. I get paperbacks from Amazon etc, because it’s not worth hauling them home from here so I get them as cheap as possible and leave them for others.
September 26th, 2007 at 11:29 am
Mein Gott im Himmel.
I have seen your book collection, thank you, and salivated where appropriate; if you’re taking this up, I’m going to just instruct the two wee ones to snap up anything laying around and bestamped. O_o
I mean I’ll release it again…probably…but only after my own loquacious appetite has been properly sated. Which, come to think on it, has been going for 22 years without stopping thus far….so good luck on that front.
-A, D, V, whatever pseudonym I’m using these days.
September 30th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
I am so doing that. What a great way to spread around some good, yet little known authors as well. That and maybe the right book may just change someones world?
You never know.