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Wednesday, September 10, 2003
| RELEASE THE HOUNDS
I just wanted to share the world's coolest website with everyone. It's called BookCrossing. The whole concept makes me all tingly inside just thinking about it. Here's the dilli-yo. You have old books that you've read. They are sitting on shelves or in boxes collecting dust. Rather than have them take up space and go unread, why not share them with the world? Go to BookCrossing and register your book. Or books. You get a unique ID number for YOUR book. Then you either handwrite the ID number in the front cover of your book with a message explaining the concept of BookCrossing, or you can print nifty labels from the website which you then affix in the front cover of the book. Then--here's the cool part--you RELEASE your book. That's right. Release it. Go to a public place. Or a not-so-public place. Leave your book there for someone to find it, and (hopefully) read it. They can go online and enter the book's ID number and leave an entry as to where they found the book and their experience with the book. You can track your book's whereabouts and see how it is doing. You can also "hunt" for books near you. Locations are broken down first by country, then state for those of us in the USA, and even town/city. People will leave a name of a place, an address, or just a vague clue as to where they left their book. It's up to you to find it. For example, just browsing the places here in PA, two books were recently left in Gettysburg. One at Devil's Den, and one at Little Roundtop. Imagine walking the Battlefield, taking in all of the history and stumbling across a book, only to find a BookCrossing label in the front cover...and then you know...it was waiting for you to pick it up and read it. And then it's your job to release it again for someone else. Cool. So, sooo cool. ¶ Ξ PDawg Composed at 12:39:00 AM |
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