Topic 46 of 47: bookcrossing.com and meetup.com
Thu, Jan 16, 2003 (09:51) |
Paul Terry Walhus (terry)
http://www.bookcrossing.com is an online community dedicated to the sharing of books. You register, register your books, then leave them in public places (release) for others to find (catch). I heard of this from "Choco Nancy".
Bookcrossing has partnered with http://www.meetup.com to facilitate face to face meetings of bookcrossing members all around the world. I haven't been to one of their events yet or even been to the website, but it sounds worthwhile. I was at the greatest book event I've ever been to last night which was Karen Kreps Intimacies group at Book People and I'll have a lot more to say about it later. It was about a new way for couples, workers and communities to communicate. It's a whole new model for communication that Meri (the presenter) has spent 12 years refining and it was a packed house for her talk.
I now have these two books I want to read and to share thoughts of with others who are reading them at the same time. I wonder if I can start something like that on my own vc which is filled with book loving people or if I should go the bookcrossing and do that.
9 responses total.
Topic 46 of 47 [books]: bookcrossing.com and meetup.com
Response 1 of 9: Autumn (autumn) * Mon, Jan 20, 2003 (15:47) * 1 lines
What a fascinating concept, Terry! I'm going to surf over there and check it out asap.
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Response 2 of 9: User & (admin) * Tue, Jan 21, 2003 (11:17) * 1 lines
Let us know your findings, ok?
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Response 3 of 9: Autumn (autumn) * Tue, Jan 21, 2003 (16:16) * 1 lines
OK, I checked it out but--here's the horrifying part--you have to actually purchase books to make this work. After you read it, you post your critique to the website, put a special sticker on it that you print off the website, and leave it somewhere. Someone else picks it up, reads it, posts their thoughts, and leaves it somewhere else. It didn't appear to be a thing where you can post your comments about the same book if you've just checked it out of the library like sane people do. :-)
Topic 46 of 47 [books]: bookcrossing.com and meetup.com
Response 4 of 9: User & (admin) * Wed, Jan 22, 2003 (07:24) * 3 lines
We'll have to do it ourselves then, with no purchase requirement. Although we do have an Amazon program here and we love it when people buy books through us b ecause it pays the bills. It helps to pay for our server and our colocation fees!
What would we need to do, autumn?
Topic 46 of 47 [books]: bookcrossing.com and meetup.com
Response 5 of 9: Autumn (autumn) * Wed, Jan 22, 2003 (20:34) * 1 lines
Well, obviously, instead of passing around the same book, we could do it the old-fashioned way and all choose a book to read and discuss. Or, we could each choose a different book and post our thoughts in an individual topic diary fashion. Then we would read the books the others read and add our thoughts to their topics. Does that make sense?
Topic 46 of 47 [books]: bookcrossing.com and meetup.com
Response 6 of 9: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Jan 23, 2003 (10:08) * 1 lines
Yeah, it does. Fining a book we all like is the trick.
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Response 7 of 9: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Jan 23, 2003 (13:25) * 2 lines
meant to say 'finding'
Topic 46 of 47 [books]: bookcrossing.com and meetup.com
Response 8 of 9: Autumn (autumn) * Thu, Jan 23, 2003 (18:20) * 1 lines
Well, that's always the eternal dilemma.
Topic 46 of 47 [books]: bookcrossing.com and meetup.com
Response 9 of 9: wer (wer) * Fri, Apr 11, 2003 (08:19) * 33 lines
Make the Whole World a Library
(sorry for the crosspost...*sigh*)
Celebrate the Anniversary of bookcrossing.com
On April 17th, 2003, join Austin area residents at Quack's on 411 E. 43rd St to
celebrate the anniversary of web site bookcrossing.com. The concept behind
the site is that you take a book you've read, register it at the site, put
an identifying label on the book, then leave the book in a public place for
someone else to find and enjoy.
To celebrate this anniversary, Austin BookCrossers will have many books
available for you to take home with you and enjoy...for FREE! We only ask
that if you take a book, you visit the bookcrossing.com web site to let us
know what you think of the book and whether you've released it into the
wild again. We love to see the journey of each little message in a bottle!
If you have a book you'd like to release at the event, bring it by and
we'll tag it with a label. Better yet, sign up at
http://bookcrossing.com/referral/AustinBXers before you come and tag it
yourself so you can track its journey all over the world!
When: Thursday, April 17th, 10:30 am - 8:30 pm
Where: Quack's, 411 E. 43rd St
What: Free books!
Why: Because shared books are happy books
For more information about this event, visit
http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/AustinBXers or contact Nicole at
nicole@nicole2112.com.
Sincerely,
Nicole2112 (http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/Nicole2112)
books conference 
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