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Everyone knows the feeling, when you close a
book that you liked, which affected you, to
want to share it with someone else. Since
the minstrels of the Middle Ages to today’s
city dwellers, books have been shared and
travel at the whim of their owner.
Bookcrossing
offers a simple way to share books with
strangers, and follow their trail.
Bookcrossing
began in
April 2001
in the United States. It now has just over
350,000
members in
more than 90
countries.
This treasure hunt of a new sort consists of
leaving a book with an identifier in the
open enabling its journey to be tracked as
it is found, then left down again in a
different place. An Internet site,
bookcrossing.com,
acts as a base for records and follow up. To
date, over 2
million books
have been left and recorded.
There are three simple rules :
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Find one of 100 books that we have left
around. Information and details are
available on
bookcrossing.com,
you can see
here
which books are
released, travelling, or caught.
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Sign in this book on the site
bookcrossing.com
by entering the
BCID code (BookCrossing ID) written on its
first page.
- Read the book and release it anywhere so
that its adventure can go on.
Under the
Franco Irish Literary Festival,
since 2006, we are organising, a huge
leaving of
100
books
(in French and in English) all over Dublin
one month before the Festival. The authors
invited to the festival will be foregrounded,
but also many Irish writers.
Be ready in April because the book hunting
season is open ! |
