Cool BookCrossing thing!

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Cool BookCrossing thing!
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Fri, 05-05-2006 - 8:14am
This is so cool! I used to do a lot of wild releases for BC. I had a pretty good Find rate for a while. I just got a BC email w/a journal entry for a book I released in Jan. 2003. Somebody bought it (boo!) at a yard sale in the British Virgin Islands! WooHoo! Would love to know its travels, & how it got there.

 

 Katz

 

 

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Fri, 05-05-2006 - 8:47am
That's very cool!

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Fri, 05-05-2006 - 9:28am
That is very cool Katz,
All the ones I released have no clue what happened to them :(
Fun you found out about one of yours :)


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Registered: 10-12-2010
Fri, 05-05-2006 - 9:57am
I always loved getting those Journal Entry emails! :)

 

 Katz

 

 

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Fri, 05-05-2006 - 9:59am
I got replies on a lot of mine when I was doing it, but this one is esp. cool b/c it was 3 1/2 years ago, & because it went all the way to the BVI. :) Wonder how it got there? LOL.

 

 Katz

 

 

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Registered: 08-08-2003
Fri, 05-05-2006 - 10:20am

Over 3 years?

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Fri, 05-05-2006 - 10:21am
Guess maybe it took that long to get there Katz :)


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Registered: 06-02-2003
Fri, 05-05-2006 - 10:54am
So, can you explain what BC is?

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Fri, 05-05-2006 - 10:57am

I've never looked at paperbackswap, though I bookmarked it the other day. I'll check into it eventually.

The idea of a wild release in BC is that you register a book on the site, giving it a BC number. You put a note on the front saying FREE Book, & a note inside, with the BC number, asking the finder to go to the BC site & make a journal entry for that book. (They find it on the site by the BC number). Then you leave it somewhere. The hope is that the person who finds it will go on the BC site & make a Journal entry saying that they found the book. You then get a BC email showing you their Journal entry. The further hope is that that person will relese it, & the next person will make a journal entry, etc. In reality, it doesn't work all that well. Most finders don't go on the BC site & make journal entries. :( But it's great fun when they do, & you get that email. :)

 

 Katz

 

 

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Registered: 10-12-2010
Fri, 05-05-2006 - 11:00am
LOL. I just posted an explanation in post #9, above. :)

 

 Katz

 

 

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Registered: 06-02-2003
Fri, 05-05-2006 - 12:04pm

Thanks, Katz!

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