Share YOUR BOOKS
bookcrossing n. the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise ...added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary in August 2004
You probably have lots of books on your shelves, gathering dust. Why not share them with others? Select one that you really like. Nobody is reading it at the moment. Register it on the BookCrossing website, leave it somewhere for someone to pick up.., and this will be the start of its journey into the unknown.
...help create a public library
Take Action
Sign up as a member of BookCrossing. Release a book that you really like "into the wild" for others to read and pass on, www.bookcrossing.com
If you happen to find a BookCrossing book left by someone else, read it, enjoy it and pass it on.
Encourage all your friends to join BookCrossing. The more BookCrossing grows, the better it will get!
Find Out More
BookCrossing: www.bookcrossing.com
How BookCrossing works:
BookCrossing is a book-lovers' community. It's a global book club that crosses time and space. It's a reading group that knows no geographical boundaries. It has 300,000 members, sharing 1.5 million books, all over the world. And it's completely free.
A BookCrossing member leaves a book around for someone else to pick up and read; and registers this book on the BookCrossing website. The person who finds the book reads it and then passes it on to another reader. The book continues from one reader to another, until it gets lost or someone breaks the chain by not passing it on.
Each reader can comment on the book, putting their comments on the BookCrossing website. The person who originally supplied the book can keep track of its journey by logging on to the BookCrossing website.
The Three Rs of BookCrossing:
- R1: Read a good book... a book that you would recommend to others.
- R2: Register the book with BookCrossing. First you log in your details. This takes a couple of minutes. You will be given a BookCrossing identification number and the URL of the BookCrossing website. Label your book with these references, and put in a note asking the reader to pass it on after they've finished reading it. You can buy printed labels from the BookCrossing website.
- R3: Release the book for someone else to read. There are three ways of doing this. You can give it to a friend. You can leave it somewhere for someone to pick up - on a park bench, in a coffee shop, etc. Or you can release it 'into the wild', which means that people have to search for it. The BookCrossing website enables you to say you have left it or give clues to help people find it. Then wait and see what happens.
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Here is an interesting way to hand your books on for others to read: BookCrossing: www.bookcrossing.com
Why not sign up to BookCrossing and pass on a book that you have really enjoyed reading.
It's simple and it's absolutely free.
