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CrabGirl
10-03-2006, 10:34 PM
This has probably been posted before but its a fantastic idea.

www.BookCrossing.com

You register books with them, which are then given an ID number, then "release" them. Idea is that someone finds them, logs onto the website and registers what they thought of it, then passes the book on again. Basically you can track wherever the book goes, assuming all finders register its movement, and find out what they thought of it.

You can also hunt for books that other people have "released".

I've released one in my city today, and plan on doing more and seeing what happens.


And before this gets moved to bookworld, it's already in there. So :P

j2k4
10-03-2006, 11:01 PM
Interesting.

I have held some books for many, many years...

Proper Bo
10-03-2006, 11:06 PM
Interesting.

I have held some books for many, many years...

Have you got sticky hands? :unsure:

j2k4
10-03-2006, 11:23 PM
Interesting.

I have held some books for many, many years...

Have you got sticky hands? :unsure:

Not overly, no. :dabs:

Barbarossa
10-04-2006, 08:41 AM
This has probably been posted before but its a fantastic idea.

www.BookCrossing.com

You register books with them, which are then given an ID number, then "release" them. Idea is that someone finds them, logs onto the website and registers what they thought of it, then passes the book on again. Basically you can track wherever the book goes, assuming all finders register its movement, and find out what they thought of it.

You can also hunt for books that other people have "released".

I've released one in my city today, and plan on doing more and seeing what happens.


And before this gets moved to bookworld, it's already in there. So :P

Forgive me for asking, but what's the point? :blink:

Karen DiConcet
10-04-2006, 09:59 AM
It's like file sharing, except without the talk, I guess.

manker
10-04-2006, 10:08 AM
I don't really like reading books that other people have read before me, they might have picked their arse before turning a page or something. Libraries and Book-swapping is for poor, unclean people. Fact.

Also, why should I give my books away. Fecking freeloading gypsy-hippies.

Barbarossa
10-04-2006, 10:13 AM
It's like file sharing, except without the talk, I guess.

BookSharingWalk? :blink:

Barbarossa
10-04-2006, 10:21 AM
After two hours of research on the internet, Ron realized, to his surprise, that nothing like BookCrossing had been done on any significant scale. And so they went to work. By 3 A.M. that night, they had decided on the name (zero hits for "bookcrossing" on Google), registered the domain, and Kaori had sketched the running book logo on a crossing sign. The rest was merely execution.

"...to his surprise..." :lol: :D :wacko: :lol:

"... sketched the running book logo..."

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/7918/runningbook33ll4.gif

:wacko:


Many of our members, in fact, purchase two copies of every book they like, so they can keep one and release the other into the wild!

:glag:

JPaul
10-04-2006, 10:37 AM
I don't really like reading books that other people have read before me, they might have picked their arse before turning a page or something. Libraries and Book-swapping is for poor, unclean people. Fact.

Also, why should I give my books away. Fecking freeloading gypsy-hippies.

I agree with OCD boi.

Free nuts on a bar, that's another good idea. When examined they are found to contain over 20 different urine samples, on average like. True Story

Karen DiConcet
10-04-2006, 10:44 AM
Many of our members, in fact, purchase two copies of every book they like, so they can keep one and release the other into the wild!

:glag:

Lollies.

My dad doesn't believe me that you pickle eggs with the shell on.

JPaul
10-04-2006, 11:19 AM
:glag:

Lollies.

My dad doesn't believe me that you pickle eggs with the shell on.

:noes:

Karen DiConcet
10-04-2006, 11:24 AM
*me looks on the internet.

Damn, he was right. Bastard.

JPaul
10-04-2006, 11:26 AM
:glag: :earl:

:genious:

Karen DiConcet
10-04-2006, 11:32 AM
I think I've watched too many episodes of How2 without paying attention, that Gareth Jones is a bit hawt.

manker
10-04-2006, 12:09 PM
Gaz Top, I think you'll find.

MCHeshPants420
10-04-2006, 12:12 PM
I do something similar to this Bookcrossing. I sell my books on Amazon.

Karen DiConcet
10-04-2006, 12:16 PM
I do something similar to this Bookcrossing. I sell my books on Amazon.

Do you also buy two copies, so you can keep one and sell the other?

JPaul
10-04-2006, 12:28 PM
I do something similar to this Bookcrossing. I sell my books on Amazon.

Books are people too, you know.

Proper Bo
10-04-2006, 12:33 PM
I bought a book off Amazon once, it was delivered this morning.

fact.

MCHeshPants420
10-04-2006, 12:34 PM
I do something similar to this Bookcrossing. I sell my books on Amazon.

Do you also buy two copies, so you can keep one and sell the other?

I bought 4 copies of the Great Gatsby by accident once.

MagicNakor
10-04-2006, 06:37 PM
I'm not sure if anyone else where I live reads that doesn't use the large-print edition.

:shuriken: