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Seamonkey

Thursday, October 09, 2003 - 06:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
TVCHers at bookcrossing.com

I'm there as SeamonkeyatTVCH, Max is Maxfun, Slothkitten is.. Slothkitten, Azriel is there too..

I hope to release some books at the TVCH Long Beach gathering :)

Bookworm

Thursday, October 09, 2003 - 07:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I just joined Ms. Seamonkey. :) I am BookwormTVCH. What fun!!

Seamonkey

Thursday, October 09, 2003 - 09:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oooh, Bookie, of course you should be in there!!

Egbok

Friday, October 10, 2003 - 01:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I just joined. I'm EgbokTVCH.

Max

Friday, October 10, 2003 - 02:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Gee,I think I must have started a movement here (thanks to Sea for making it more visible)! :) I have visions of all these new books being released into the wild. WHEE!!!

Reader234

Friday, October 10, 2003 - 02:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
BTW, just thought you should know, I remember reading about this - somewhere this past summer (probably here, where else would I be visiting?) I thought it such a great idea, and I have way too many books, I do it, only I didnt realize I was supposed to register it!! That reminds me of geo caching!!

OK, so am I the only one that wants to leave free books but doesnt want to register? I love to leave books at the laundramat I go to... hmmmm let me think on this.. as long as this thread remains at the top....

Max

Friday, October 10, 2003 - 02:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've left books around for a while, too, Reader. This just makes it a little more fun! It's sort of like Where's George? where you can register your dollar bills and then see where they travel as people add to the list.

Check out the thread in the Libary section over here for a story about one of my releases yesterday. :)

Reader234

Friday, October 10, 2003 - 04:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Guess what Max - I did read it already, very, very inspiring!! So much so I just had to post here!! :) (and that is why it reminded me of the geo caching)

Djgirl

Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 10:04 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I've signed up - I'm just Djgirl over there too!

Bastable

Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 10:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I love Where's George, Max... I do that, too. (Though not for a while--I went too long without a hit!)

Whit4you

Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 07:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That site looks sooo fascinating - I have 100+ books I can release .... looks like it'll take a few minutes to do so for each one and then ackkkkk I'll probably want to keep an eye on them to see what happens to them. (do I sense another addiction coming on?? lol)

Max

Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 08:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes, Whit, but it's a good one!!! :)

Reader234

Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 08:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That's what I'm afraid of Whit and Max!! *g

Seamonkey

Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 12:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Whit.. yes it is.. I'm finding that the letting go isn't hard but rejection is the pits.. I released a book at the physical therapy place I'm going to and when it was still there days later..
I took it back!! Will re-release it elsewhere.

Are you signed up over there?? Just want to include you as a friend on my friends list.

Reader, are you there?

This is a really great thing and Max got us started :)

Whit4you

Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 04:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sea - I have a thingy where I tend to lurk and read everything before joining/posting. I've read tons there since you first mentioned it... when the time comes a few weeks from now I'll be listing you as my refereeeee of course ;)

There are two BXers already in Spokane so it should be fun :)

Currently I'm thinking of the best strategies for this - my books being found will be fun and exciting soooooo want to increase my ods - 10% seems to be pretty common for wild releases... I'm going to go for 15% :)

Seamonkey

Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 05:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Whit, I hear ya!! I have a habit of circling around a new thing before I jump in..

Reader234

Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 06:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Me too. (what whit said!)

But I am organizing my books I plan on releasing, if that counts!! *G