The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 48, November 9, 2003, Article 14

IF YOU DON'T WANT TO STORE BOOKS, GIVE 'EM AWAY

  Larry Mitchell writes: "If you love your books, set them free!"
  He included the following web address:
  http://www.bookcrossing.com/home

  From the web site:
  "What is BookCrossing, you ask? It's a global book club that
  crosses time and space. It's a reading group that knows no
  geographical boundaries. Do you like free books?  How about
  free book clubs?. Well, the books our members leave in the
  wild are free... but it's the act of freeing books that points to
  the heart of BookCrossing. Book trading has never been more
  exciting, more serendipitous, than with BookCrossing. Our
  goal, simply, is to make the whole world a library. BookCrossing
  is a book exchange of infinite proportion, the first and only of its
  kind.

  [Basically, the concept is similar to the Where's George? web
  site where people can record the serial number of U.S. notes
  that pass through their hands.   This site does the same for books.
  The idea is to pass your book along to someone else, or leave it
  in a public place where a stranger could find it.  Subsequent
  readers then record their thoughts on the web site and pass the
  book along once more.

  This would be an interesting way to distribute coin books to
  potential hobbyists. -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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