From their website:
What’s BookCrossing?
BookCrossing is the act of releasing books “into the wild” and then following their journeys and the lives they touch. www.bookcrossing.com is the website that makes it all possible.
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.
Isn’t this the most awesome idea you’ve ever come across? Now I don’t have to sneak my books into my siblings’ shelves anymore! Like I said to Lutten earlier; “If you have more books than shelves; start bookcrossing!” I’ve already ordered special Release Bags and a Starter Kit with sturdy bookcrossing labels to explain the concept of bookcrossing to the Finders! Books from my collection that I definitely will have to Release into the wild:
Lyonesse by Jack Vange (paperback) cover
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (hardcover, UK 1st edition) cover
Brisingr by Christopher Paolini (pretty paperback!) cover
…and three more I don’t remember the names of right now. Some of them I own two copies of, while others were books I randomly bought but were so bad I never finished them. My books need a new home, so if you’d like to read any of them, please let me know and I might be able to do a Controlled Release :) I only ask of you to go to bookcrossing.com to type in he BCID number (will be written on the bookplate label) so that the book will be mapped and I know where it has been! And then Release my book again so that others might enjoy it! :D
Thank you, Maisen, for introducing me to the concept of bookcrossing!
So what do you think of the concept? Pretty amazing, eh? :D
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Ooh, bookcrossing! I remember reading about it in a newspaper a couple of years ago and wanting to try it. I signed up at the site, but it just kind of stopped there. Maybe I should log on again and see if there are any books running free in Oslo. :3
…did you hear of the lady whose book crossing book was stolen from her open sports car? :P
BTW, what happened to your coming to Oslo this weekend?
This happened: “Jeg planlegger å være der fredag-søndag (hvis jeg består oppkjøring)!” I don’t think I need to explain further, no? An upset Kiyu is not very good company, you see.
Wow. Someone stole a bookcrossing book? O_O Now that IS weird!
You definitely should go hunting! I checked last night, and there are indeed a lot of books needing new readers in Oslo!
I see. I had thought so, seeing your blog post, but I wasn’t sure not having heard from you. But that just means we’ll have something to look forward to some other time, no? :)
I just bought a huge pile of books at a flea market, so I might finally get to setting them free someday. …do I really need a starter kit, though? Can’t I just make a note and tape it inside or something? Hmmm… It would be really fun to find one, though! *goes to check the site*
Of course you can! I just bought the stuff to support the people behind bookcrossing.com so that they can keep going strong :)