Promoting Reading an interesting approach
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Sherbear | Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 12:49 am     I ran across an interesting approach to promt literacy or book reading. I thought it was kinda of cool. Tell me what you think. www.bookcrossing.com You've come to a friendly place, and we welcome you to our book-lovers' community. What is BookCrossing, you ask? It's a global book club that crosses time and space. It's a reading group that knows no geographical boundaries. Do you like free books? How about free book clubs?. Well, the books our members leave in the wild are free... but it's the act of freeing books that points to the heart of BookCrossing. Book trading has never been more exciting, more serendipitous, than with BookCrossing. Our goal, simply, is to make the whole world a library. BookCrossing is a book exchange of infinite proportion, the first and only of its kind. Here at BookCrossing.com you'll find tens of thousands of book reviews, book ratings, and book recommendations, because each time a book changes hands our members can leave journal entries telling the world of their experiences. Our LeaderBoard has Book Lists that reflect the book trading activities of our members, showing the recently released books, the recently found books, and the most traveled books. But let's get right down to it. You know the feeling you get after reading a book that speaks to you, that touches your life, a feeling that you want to share it with someone else? BookCrossing.com gives you a simple way to share books with the world, and follow their paths forever more! The "3 Rs" of BookCrossing... Read a good book (you already know how to do that) Register it here (along with your journal comments), get a unique BCID (BookCrossing ID number), and label the book Release it for someone else to read (give it to a friend, leave it on a park bench, donate it to charity, "forget" it in a coffee shop, etc.), and get notified by email each time someone comes here and records journal entries for that book. And if you make Release Notes on the book, others can Go Hunting for it and try to find it! Sounds easy, right? Well it is. It's also a fascinating exercise in fate, karma, or whatever you want to call the chain of events that can occur between two or more lives and one piece of literature. Oh, and we should mention, it's absolutely free and absolutely private, too. So go grab a book or two from your shelves now (they're not doing anyone any good there, are they?), register them here, jot down our URL and the BCID we'll give you inside the covers, and then give them away or leave them where someone will find them. ~ |
Sherbear | Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 12:52 am     I spelled approach wrong and don't know how to fix it. Help???? |
Moderator | Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 09:23 am     fixed SherBear (cw) |
Reader234 | Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 01:47 pm     What an interesting concept!! So easy!! I live at library Book Sales!! Lately the Flea Markets, and the Garage Sale Books have drifted upwards to $2+ for a paperback!! Then again when you buy them at B&N its up to $7+ all for a paperback!! Heading to the website, and digging around my dusty library, I do so hate to part with books, but this is an interesting concept!! |
Vanillarose | Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 02:46 pm     I've heard of Bookcrossings before, and I LOVE the idea. The only problem is that my books mean too much to me to give any up! I have been looking for extra, second-hand copies of my favorite books, so I can give books away, and still have them to re-read for myself!
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Sia | Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 11:49 am     This is interesting, SherBear; I'd never heard of the BookCrossing program before. I have plenty of books that I WOULD part with, but I'd want to know that the specific titles I was releasing were WANTED. I buy books at library sales & yard sales and have too many to keep them all, but really have a difficult time getting rid of anything (not just books). As an example, I have a whole bunch of paperbacks by and about Edgar Cayce, but have never read them & don't see myself having time in the future to do so, but would love to send them to somebody who was interested in him. As another example, a guy I know collects all novels by Nora Roberts for his & his wife's personal library. I am into children's literature, since I have kids who love books. Anyone want to trade books here for free? How do you think that would work? Say I exchange e-mails with you about what we like/are looking for & then exchange lists of what we are willing to part with, then select from each other's lists and just mail each other a box of books. I live in Podunk & doubt that many people around here would participate in a web-based program like BookCrossing; lots of folks around where I live don't have 'net access. Tell me what you think, SherBear, Reader & VanillaRose. |
Sherbear | Friday, September 27, 2002 - 03:27 pm     I think it sounds good Sia. I personally read a variety of books. I am currently in a very light hearted reading zone. I am reading Janet Evanovich's book Full House. |
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