BookCrossing

[tarotgal]

Doing better today, but only because the evil project was put on hold while software is being installed on our machine 3 time zones away. As soon as that's done, the nightmare returns. But until then, I've been playing catch up and doing a good job at it.

Anyway, in yesterday's Hints from Heloise, someone wrote in about BookCrossing!

HINTS FROM HELOISE
By Hints From Heloise
Tuesday, January 23, 2007; the Washington Post Page C08

Dear Heloise:

A way to share a book and continue being entertained by its journey long after you have "released" it is described a thttp://www.bookcrossing.com.

The idea is to put a label with a BookCrossing ID number in the book and then leave it in a public place. One can download and print labels, or purchase preprinted labels. As the book passes through future readers' hands, they are encouraged to go to the Web site and make a journal entry under that ID number and once again leave the book in a public place for yet another reader.

The journal entries give reader comments and record the progress of the book as it passes from one person to the next.

Larry L., Moorpark, Calif.

Larry, I love, love, love this idea, and as an author I wholeheartedly suggest to my readers to "pass a book on."

And today I got a second catch from a book that seems to have gone all over! Virginia, North Dakota, Minnesota, Colorado... where to next, I wonder?
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/3634683

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_la_mysterieuse/]

Not related to your post at all... but is that Ewan McGregor in your moodtheme? Hee. It's great. :)

[tarotgal]

Yes it is! I changed it last night to make myself feel better :-) I didn't create it (credit is in my LJ profile) but I do really like it. Mmmmm Ewanness...