Eirik Newth wrote about bookcrossing.com, a brilliant project which coordinates the release of books – you read a book, register it at bookcrossings, write a brief review of it, print out a label and glue it into the book, then you give it to charity or “forget” it in a cafÈ. The finder will (hopefully) read the label and register the finding at the website, and you’ll be notified by email. What a wonderful idea! Though most of the books appear to have been mailed round to other bookcrossers rather than found. I’m in a decluttering mood (uh, it might have to do with that Flylady thing) and releasing some books would be perfect! [update: Torill actually blogged this last June. I suppose I must have read it then but not quite read it? Oh well.]
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Liz
Very cool idea. Will need to try it here.
And the flylady thing cracked me up…we really are alike in many ways! I subscribed to flylady a couple of months ago, with the best of intentions, but haven’t followed up. The mail is collecting in a separate mailbox, which I empty (guiltily) periodically. Maybe I’ll try this summer, and see if we can get a routine going.
I think the thing that threw me is we have an awful kitchen sink; enamel, not stainless, with rusted spots. It’s not going to be shining in this lifetime. So to start flylady, we first have to replace our sink, which is a pretty major mental roadblock. <sigh>
Jill
That’s so funny that you’re a flylady subscriber too, though, Liz – I actually HAVE shined my kitchen sink but I’m not sure how long that will last… I think I’m having a bit of a housekeeping fix right now because it’s an area where I *can* have a certain amount of control, whereas the thesis and research and teaching and jobs and all is seeming a bit much right now…
And this week my daughter’s with her dad. Keeping a shipshape house is a LOT easier when you’re the only person in it…
H.
Anyone find a link to Nordic-countries labels? I would like to trade with Swedish and Finnish books, but it seems sort of pointless to “release” these into “the wild” labeled in English.
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This is an incredibly good idea for sharing books you’ve read and don’t plan to read again: donate them to the public domain & track their travels 🙂