I learned about a site today called bookcrossing.com that is the “Where’s George?” for books. You leave a book for a new person to read, they read it and pass it along where its adventure through the world is tracked online!
The site says the following…
BookCrossing is earth-friendly, and gives you a way to share your books, clear your shelves, and conserve precious resources at the same time. Through our own unique method of recycling reads, BookCrossers give life to books. A book registered on BookCrossing is ready for adventure.
Leave it on a park bench, a coffee shop, at a hotel on vacation. Share it with a friend or tuck it onto a bookshelf at the gym — anywhere it might find a new reader! What happens next is up to fate, and we never know where our books might travel. Track the book’s journey around the world as it is passed on from person to person.
While I have hard time separating from some of my books, I often hand many off as recommendations to friends and even donate others to the library. I’ve got a stack of books just waiting to start a new chapter in life! [yea yea, not so witty, but punny indeed!]
So join the fun now! [many thanks to Becky for the heads up!]
[post script: my screen name at bookcrossing is stephysite, let 'em know I sent ya!]
Other posts about books:
Life at HOK 2009 Reading List
A Few Dozen Slices
Book Release: The HOK Monograph
The Green Workplace Book Launches!
