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	BookCrossing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		BookCrossing, BC, BCing, or BXing, is defined as the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise.
		Contact between BookCrossing members (called BookCrossers) is facilitated through forums on the website, email lists (many countries have their own email lists as well as a main international list), an unofficial "wish-list" system, local meetups and national conventions.
		In 2003, BookCrossing was criticised by the author Jessica Adams who claimed that books were being "devalued" by the site as BookCrossing could lead to lower sales of books and, therefore, the reduction in royalties being paid to authors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BookCrossing (1023 words)

	Bookcrossing: Tutte le informazioni su Bookcrossing su Encyclopedia.it (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bookcrossing: Tutte le informazioni su Bookcrossing su Encyclopedia.it
		Se qualcuno decide di rilasciare un libro attraverso BookCrossing, questo deve essere registrato per ottenere un BCID, ovvero il codice identificativo di cui sopra, in modo da potere seguire il volume durante i suoi spostamenti.
		I membri del BookCrossing, (chiamati BookCrossers, in Italia anche BookCorsari) si sono nel tempo dotati di strumenti di comunicazione e di partecipazione intorno ai quali la comunità si raccoglie e si esprime: tra questi strumenti il forum e la mailing list.
	www.encyclopedia.it /b/bo/bookcrossing.html (814 words)

	BookCrossing: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There are no charges for membership but donations received will go towards the maintenance of the servers and continue the exile of pop-up ad[For more info, click on this link]s on the website.
		Members who order BookCrossing items through the supply store or BC Newsstand will receive wings on the sides of their screennames and additional benefits like fewer advertisements displayed and having access to the book registration database.
		Australia, officially the commonwealth of australia, is the sixth-largest country in the world, the only country to occupy an entire continent, and the largest...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bo/bookcrossing1.htm (1554 words)

	bookcrossing.com - Read Reviews
		Bookcrossing was created in April 2001 and it has already entered the Concise Oxford English Dictionary (in August 2004) where it is defined as 'the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by...
		I signed up for Bookcrossing about two years ago, but to be honest, it all seemed a bit of a kafuffle to do, so I never got around to setting any books free.
		Bookcrossing is an American idea, and it involves you signing up as a member (with a user name) on their website, then, when you have a book that you have read, and feel that others may also enjoy,...
	www.ciao.co.uk /Reviews/bookcrossing_com__5331652 (1076 words)

	Turns of Phrase: Bookcrossing
		The idea is to leave a book in a public place with a note of how to log on to the Bookcrossing site to record where and when you found it and what you thought of it.
		The Bookcrossing site describes itself as a cross between a book club, a reading group and an attempt to turn the whole world into a library.
		Bookcrossing strikes at one of the industry’s darkest fears: that there are already enough books in the world.
	www.worldwidewords.org /turnsofphrase/tp-boo1.htm (244 words)

	Lovemarks \| BookCrossing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bookcrossing gives me that feel good feeling, and reminds me about the positive side of the human spirit which seems to be, unfortunately, becoming rarer.
		Bookcrossers is essential to me because having a community of friends drawn from all quarters, all sensibilities, politics, socio-economic, spiritual and educational strata enriches my view of the world and of literature.
		Bookcrossing is the easiest, most fun way to give someone else a little slice of serendipity.
	www.lovemarks.com /lm/read/2194/100 (682 words)

	BookCrossing.com Encourages Book Lovers to Read and Release
		Adventurous BookCrossers release their books "into the wild" on airplanes, trains, park benches, bus terminals...
		BookCrossers register a book by going to the website at www.BookCrossing.com, entering the ISBN number of the book, and getting a unique BCID (BookCrossing ID number) that is then written inside the cover (or on a bookmark) along with the website address.
		More conservative BookCrossers give their books to friends, relatives, or charities, and enjoy reading the resulting journal entries from person to person.
	www.urlwire.com /news/041701.html (754 words)

	Bookcrossing - QuickTopic free message board hosting
		In his review, Angelo Rinaldi, literary editor of Le Figaro newspaper, attributed his find to "le bookcrossing." But in a telephone interview he conceded the story was a humorous way to disguise a leak of the book, "La possibilite d'une ile" ("Island"), which he panned.
		BookCrossing is one of those creations that could only exist because of the Web.
		Not only is there the unique encounter between complete strangers as they compare something as personal as their opinions about someone's favorite book, but there's also the fascinating - albeit occasionally depressing - act of tracking the movements of books that are better travelled than we are.
	www.quicktopic.com /23/H/HB2fsXiEWxi22 (325 words)

	Creative Loafing Atlanta \| ARTS \| ALL THE WORLD'S A LIBRARY
		These BookCrossers revel in the idea that they are celebrating reading, improving literacy and connecting with other people.
		They all have a vague notion of BookCrossing as fun self-expression or a social service rather than as a way of elaborating on their ideas about books.
		BookCrossing shows that even books can be co-opted into shallow pursuits and that we have to be discerning if we want reading to matter.
	atlanta.creativeloafing.com /2004-04-29/arts_books.html (1099 words)

	CNN.com - The karma of virtual libraries - Dec. 3, 2002
		BookCrossers can leave books marked with a BookCrossing registration label anywhere (stickers often admonish, "Don't sell this book!") Coffee shops and supermarkets are obvious sites, but adventurous types also leave books at bus stops, on trains and in airports.
		BookCrossing is a political act for Sandra Krecioch, who says the main value of the site for her is "becoming exposed to books that are not part of the big hype being pushed by large publishers." She likes finding books by smaller authors who have a hard time getting recognition.
		BookCrosser Theresa Levy writes about the book trading that goes on with people who backpack or sail around the world, stopping at Internet cafes to log on during their travels.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/11/28/hln.hot.buzz.virtual.libraries (590 words)

	Technorati Tag: bookcrossing
		Bookcrossing Forum - Zimbio.com Participate in this discussion about leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others.
		Lil' ol' Sneakeasy (Also my Bookcrossing Name) was profiled in a sidebar to a recent AP story that the Orange County Register published in...
		Bookcrossing: releasing books into the wild May 4th, 2006 Over at Memepunks they posted about Bookcrossing, which is the kind of web-based thing that...
	www.technorati.com /tag/bookcrossing (512 words)

	Bookcrossing - Wikipédia
		La base du Bookcrossing est un site internet [1], qui permet principalement d'enregistrer les livres et de suivre leur parcours.
		Ron Hornbaker a eu l'idée de créer BookCrossing en mars 2001.
		En France le bookcrossing s'est développé en 2003 grâce à de nombreux articles dans la presse.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bookcrossing (493 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - BookCrossing
		After establishing that neither the idea of tracking books, nor the name 'bookcrossing', were yet to be found on the Internet, he set about establishing his own website.
		BookCrossing doesn't have to be a solitary activity and many towns and cities in the UK and around the world have regular BookCrossing meets.
		BookCrossing is currently much more popular in English-speaking countries than elsewhere, but numbers worldwide are steadily growing, and there are bookcrossers in most areas of the globe.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A9193269 (1629 words)

	Lovemarks \| BookCrossing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		BookCrossing has given me another way to express my love of reading and introduced me to a community of caring, supportive, interesting and challenging people with whom I can communicate about books and life.
		Yes, BookCrossing is a great way to meet new friends and talk about great books -and about not so great ones.
		Bookcrossing makes me feel good, every time I release a book, see that it was captured, or visit the site.
	www.lovemarks.com /lm/read.php?LID=2194&LMSession=f3ebc34b3fdbecaa0594d73a1642e044 (791 words)

	Lovemarks \| BookCrossing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Since I first attended bookcrossing's Meet-ups not only have I got a bunch of books worthwhile reading but - and this is even more important - I have met nice people I would not have met otherwise.
		BookCrossing epitomizes the "random act of kindness" as well as redistributing wealth, literacy, and common love of learning.
		I think Bookcrossing is the greatest - it crosses cultural and societal and economic boundaries.
	www.lovemarks.com /lm/read/2194/70 (586 words)

	wer-weiss-was \| "Wer kennt Bookcrossing?" \| aus Forum Literatur
		Bookcrossing an und dann kann jemand das Buch finden.
		Seit einiger Zeit verbinde ich Bookcrossing mit Geocaching (www.geocaching.de) und das klappt prima.
		Ein Buch, das in einem dieser Verstecke hinterlassen wird, wird meist auch bei bookcrossing eingetragen, weil die Leute, die Geocaching betreiben schon auf das Tauschprinzip eingestellt sind.
	www.wer-weiss-was.de /theme73/article2268076.html (535 words)

	Readers are leaving a trail of free books all over the place
		Bookcrosser Mary Bartholomew of Olympia, the state's top Bookcrosser, has released more than 1,000, with about 15 percent caught.
		A Bookcrosser inadvertently triggered panic -- and a concourse closure -- at Sea-Tac Airport last spring when the note on the book was deemed suspicious.
		Bookcrosser Jessamyn Hager of Seattle notes that the best way to assure a response is to do a "controlled release," sending books to other Bookcrossers by mail, because she knows the books are going to people who want them.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /books/138088_bookcrossing05.html (1964 words)

	BookCrossing - Fans Of Reality TV
		BookCrossing lets you share your books with the world, and track their individual journeys forever more.
		Our members have registered 2,306,208 books so far, and a good number of these are "in the wild" at any one time.
		It works like "Where's George?", and basically, you label your books with a sticker tag leading back to the BookCrossing site and leave your used books in public places for other people to discover (and hopefully, read).
	www.fansofrealitytv.com /forums/showthread.php?t=47990 (754 words)

	Bookcrossing.com labels @ parallaxcomputers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There are six 3 1/3" x 4" labels per (horizontal) sheet, compatible with Avery labels of this size.
		Bookmarks 1: These are bookmarks with no BCID number space, meant for promoting BookCrossing in general rather than being attached to a specific book.
		Bookmarks 2: These are a second set of bookmarks made at the suggestion of a fellow BookCrosser.
	www.parallaxcomputers.com /bookcrossing (468 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jim Hawkins is a radio presenter for BBC Shropshire.
		He has a late-morning weekday talkback program and a Sunday night rock show, but is renowned for his weekly BookCrossing">BookCrossing updates between 11 and 12 AM on Fridays, which attract a global audience listening via the BBC's Internet "Listen Live" function.
		Postcrossing is a project similar to Bookcrossing">Bookcrossing (in which books are left at publicized locations for others to pick up and use for free) except it is designed to allow people to receive postcards from all over the world, for free.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/B/BookCrossing.htm (404 words)

	Bookcrossing: Interesting Thing of the Day
		Bookcrossing is the brainchild of Ron Hornbaker, an entrepreneur and book lover who was running a software company when the idea came to him in 2001.
		Although bookcrossing got off to a slow start, the movement now has hundreds of thousands of members, and is growing at an astonishing rate—with well over a million and a half books released so far.
		The BookCrossing Web site enables you to search for books in a wide variety of ways, read journal entries, and register your own books—all free, and with a tasteful minimum of advertising (for books and other relevant products, of course!).
	itotd.com /articles/381 (965 words)

	BookCrossing - FlashMob (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		BookCrossing is a global free book exchange club.
		Some cities have a BookCrossing "book drop" where anyone, at any time, can swap their books with the books in the book drop.
		One two sentences on what BookCrossing is. Not too much, not too little.
	flashmob.wiki.taoriver.net /moin.cgi/BookCrossing (195 words)

	Bookcrossing Italy :: Indice
		Discussioni sulle migliori tecniche di rilascio dei libri, su informazioni utili e accorgimenti vari per tutto quanto riguarda bookcrossing.
		Per discutere di creazione, mantenimento e quant'altro delle Bookcrossing Zone, i posti "ufficiali" dove trovare sicuramente qualche libro, nonche' un posto sicuro per lasciarcene uno.
		Bookcrossing spazia allegramente nei mezzi di comunicazione di massa.
	www.bookcrossing-italy.com /BCforum/index.php (802 words)

	The Observer \| Review \| Finders, readers
		Bookcrossing is a literary treasure hunt that starts and finishes online.
		It is also great for children: hundreds of UK bookcrossers are under 16 and furiously swapping their favourites.
		Bookcrossing started in April 2001 in Missouri, and now has 350,000 members in 90 countries who have liberated more than two million books in dozens of different languages.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,1539575,00.html (851 words)

	How to release books into the wild \| csmonitor.com
		If you haven't already heard of it, BookCrossing was launched in April of 2001 - born from the premise that most books, once read, do nothing more than occupy shelf space (or worse, landfills).
		Taking on the role of a global exchange, BookCrossing encourages readers to pass their used books along (or, as the site calls it, "Read and Release") - extending the useful life of volumes by leaving them in public places, in hopes that whoever finds them will read them, enjoy them, and release them again.
		And while this feature might be of limited practical use for the hunter (unless you have the ability and desire to travel the world in search of a specific, used paperback), the attached Journal entries can serve as grass roots reviews for titles of interest.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/1215/p25s01-stin.html (1123 words)

	TES Newsday 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		BookCrossing was founded in April 2001 by the American Ron Hornbaker.
		BookCrossing was also in Ergo Magazine Issue 10, the Independent on 26 February.
		In conjunction with this article, two Bookcrossing books will be released by "dolphingirlie": follow their journeys at www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2400608 and at www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2195901
	www.whatnext.com /TES_Books.htm (1078 words)

	Untitled Document
		If you don't know your book's ISBN number, it's ok! When you are finished registering your book, bookcrossing will give you a BCID number to write inside the cover (or back) of your book.
		The BCID number is to identify the book as a bookcrossing book.
		A Bookcrossing Zone is a permanent place where books can be dropped off or picked up for people to read.
	www.aps.edu /aps/taft/Student_Corner/Bookcrossing.htm (297 words)

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