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1. Do not send PMs to other BookCrossers requesting books until you check their profiles to see whether they answer unsolicited requests. Many bookcrossers are not interested in trading books by mail, so please respect their wishes and don't ask them for books.
2. If you see that a bookcrosser is interested in exchanging books by mail, do not send PMs demanding books -- always offer to trade or pay postage costs.
3. If you participate in booktrades/bookrings, make a journal entry when you receive a book, when you read a book and when you send it to the next person. Do not make release notes -- these should be used only when you release books into the wild, not when you send a book to a known person.
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I was pleasantly surprised to find a shelf dedicated to BookCrossing at one of my favorite coffee shops. Who says reading is dead? That shelf--heaped as it was with its assortment (all shapes, sizes & genres)--gives me hope for the future of books. After all, as long as BookCrossing survives, we'll be ensuring that reading will continue...
BookCrossing launched in 2001, with the idea that the world is (or should be) a giant library. We share...
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≈~≈~≈~WFNewsTeam~≈~≈~≈ Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday | Literature & Fiction Registered by bishopstrow of Bishopstrow, Wiltshire United Kingdom on Sunday, January 22, ...www.bookcrossing.com/journal/10400332/
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Well, hello there BookCrossing comm!This one really tugged at my heartstrings, for several reasons.It's a catch from Christchurch, where I had the extreme good fortune to go for the BookCrossing Convention of 2009. So many memories... the long, long flight with gummihuhn, the stopover in Hong Kong where we searched for good noodle soup (and found it!), the trip around the South Island on a pair of hired motorbikes. futurecatnz welcoming us...
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Today in publishing and literature: Independent bookstores are taking a page out of Amazon's and wading into the world of publishing, a look at Iran's literary prizes, and a very thorough guide to the best books coming out over the next year.Related: Amazon's New Cloud Music Player Is Great, But Is It Legal?
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Under the cut are all the books I read, listened to, or started but didn't finish this year. It may well be a personal best. All links are BookCrossing books.Books Read in 2011:1. Death from the Skies! by Philip Plait2. Original Sin by Beth McMullen3. Expiation by Greg Messel4. The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson5. The Animal Review by Jacob Lentz and Steve Nash6. Lodestone: The Sea of Storms by Mark Whiteway7...
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Overview
Bookcrossing: n. The practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise.
(added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary in August 2004)
(added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary in August 2004)
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