Books That Are Wild And Free

When I was at the Corvallis Saturday Farmers' Market last week, the manager came over and asked if my kids would like a pair of "lost and found" books. Since I'm always skeptical of other people's grasp of the obvious, I opened the book to see if it had the owner's name in it. Here's what I saw:

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I'm not lost ...
I'm a wandering book!

• Find out where I've been!
  
• Read me!
  
• Return me to the wild!
  

Visit bookcrossing.com to report that you've found this book. You can find out where else it's been, read other people's comments, and add your own. Then you can send it back out into the wild, and even share some of your own books with the world!

Enter this BCID number: 601-1806790

BookCrossing.com
READ AND RELEASE
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Pretty cool!

That is very interesting.


I never knew such a website existed. It's always good to see people encourageing reading. Too many kids nowadays are obsessed with their video games and such. I am too, but I still read a lot.

Diagnosis Murder book comes out August 3rd!

Sweet! So you read the book and leave it around for some one elese to find it and then post about it on line? Thats neat! I now have an idea for some fanarts of random manga books running free! Heheh!! ^_^""

The new ideas people think of just to get people to read. That is really cool. Perhaps this will help get people to read more books, so that we don't become people who are unable to read.

Later,
Trisa

That sounds neat, never heard of someone doing that before. It would be cool to find a book like that.

What was "in" the book? Was it a story or just a blank book?

Ooo you know what would be cool? Is if you got a blank book and wrote a line like "A girl was walking though the woods on a spring day" then you set it out for other people to find and they add to the line you started.

im a book junkie myself

back when i was younger, my only solace was books. i alwase have one going. i feel kinds today need to read more. yeah they can play games (i do) but they sould read too.

its right horrowshow i tell you. my droogs, bog has nothing.

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Originally posted by Yomiko Ooo you know what would be cool? Is if you got a blank book and wrote a line like "A girl was walking though the woods on a spring day" then you set it out for other people to find and they add to the line you started.

And call it a never ending story! But how would you know if people wrote in it? I mean It sounds like a chain letter (Chain book ) and some people are skeptics and they might just throw it out!

Well lets just say, ACT....atlest it wasn't a tape that had a note that said "Wach this or I'll die" on it (I'm refreing to the promoition tactics of the American remake of the ring)! Or if the book had a note on it that said "Read this or I'll die" on it .....

What book was it anyway?

How cool! That is such a great idea. My mom overheard me and was like "They found one???" I had never heard of that before. Neat!

And that is a great way to make kids try to read more. My family is really into reading... something that we hope to pass down to my nephew. So far, he has tons of books and loves to try to read (he's only 3.5).

BabyGhia

That's so cool that you actually found one.

Read, don't read. It's up to you, not like I'm the one who has to make the choice.

(ps: I love to read, as the fact that theres stacks of books everywhere in my home, because the bookcases are pretty much at capacity can attest. I'm just not the type to proselytize much.)

Anyway, interesting find. I had no idea of any system like this, though I could swear I've heard of SOMETHING similar.

Although...no, I think what I'm remembering was some project where people mailed a small wooden car around, and wrote where it wound up on it.

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Originally posted by BabyGhia How cool! That is such a great idea. My mom overheard me and was like "They found one???" I had never heard of that before. Neat!

According to the site, there are something like a quarter of a million members and over 1.2 million books have been registered. It looks like the phenomenon is even bigger in Europe than in the U.S.

Some of the circulating books DO seem to be diaries where people who find them make an entry and then release the book. Others seem to be books of postcards. I suppose people take one or two and mail them and leave the remainder for the next person who comes along.

I released four books today when I was running errands: two on a bench in front of the public library, one at the entrance of a school, and one in a booth at Dairy Queen. If someone finds them and reports the finding on the Web site, I'll get an email!

I really should try to do this. I have tons of books that I don't read anymore and even some duplicate books.

BabyGhia