Book Crossing

Website of the Day: Tuesday 22nd February 2005

>> Book Crossing
I first mentioned this site nearly three years ago, and where Radio 2 leads, Australia’s leading soap follows; Book Crossing featured in a Neighbours storyline last week! Aimed at book lovers, the site invites you to “Set your books free and make the whole world a library” – The idea is that when you’re finished with a book, instead of letting it languish on a shelf, you pass it on by leaving it in a public place for a stranger to find and enjoy. Each book is allocated a unique ID number so you can track its progress and find reviews from other readers.

Comments

[Marcus]

It's fantastic for BookCrossing to be Website of the Day - many thanks Miles from all the UK Bookcrossers!

[Steve]

Excellent choice for website of the day! It looks like BBC local Radio followed your lead too, Southern Counties also featured Bookcrossing today.

[Allie]

Excellent choice Miles! BookCrossing is a fantastic idea and there's a huge global community of BookCrossers out there, releasing their books into the wild!

[Mark]

Thank you for promoting this great website. The more bookcrossers, the better! What could be better than tracking a book you have read on its journey around the world?

[Steph]

What a brilliant idea! This is one of the most clver uses of the internet I've seen yet.

[Amy]

Brillant! I think BookCrossing is fabulous! (And I think on-line listening to BBC is a great option as I live overseas.) Thanks!

[Tim]

What a fabulous concept, I had a look and it is so easy to join!

[Helen]

Hi - yes as they have said above, BookCrossing is great - and it's time it got the recognition and poublicity is deserves so thanks Radio 2 (and neighbours - I did a double take when it was mentioned last week!)

May I just add we'd love to see new 'faces' so come on over, introduce yourselves and get releasing those books! and above all else, enjoy bookcossing!

Helen (NE England)

[Lynne]

BookCrossing is brilliant, thanks for promoting this site - its great to see it publicised so much lately - it's even been featured on Neighbours!

[Bea]

Thanks for advertising this wonderful site!
I've recently moved to Switzerland, and thanks to Bookcrossing I've made lots of friends and find english books to read. It's also encouraged me to take a good look at my shelves and wonder if many books wouldn't be better making others happy, so they're now available to anybody :)

[Kim]

Many thanks for promoting this wonderful site. We're always looking for new members to commit random acts of literacy!

[Jan]

Been a member of BC for 2 years plus,and have released over 450 books....great idea,great fun! We need more members.......

[Graham]

As an ex-pat Brit, I was very interested to see that the Beeb named BookCrossing.com as website of the day. You beat the Aussies by a mile too! ;) It's a wonderful to think that in this day and age of videogames and mindless TV Reality shows, people still care enough about books to share a favourite with a complete stranger, perhaps someone in a different part of the world.

[Sam]

Many thanks for the mention - hope you've registered some of your books now Miles?!

[Vikki]

I've been a member of Book Crossing since May of last year and i've released 600 books (so you could say i'm a BC addict!). Thank you soooo much for naming Bookcrossing.com as the web site of the day :o)

[Sophie]

As a French I'm profoundly jealous radio france never mentioned it as website of the day... As a bookcrosser I'm definitely happy it's been mentioned by you! (are you a member yet?)

[Inver]

Bookcrossing is great fun and the more publicity it gets the better. Thank you for choosing it. Have you joined up yet?

[Alex]

This is such a great web site. Why doens't the government give it some funding as it supports literacy for everyone and it's free!!!!

Has anyone got Ruth Kelly's e-mail address?

[Charlotte Marsden]

I just sent you an email telling you about this, should have checked here first! Still its a great site!