the possibly accurate nowThu, 11 Aug 2005
[00:31] A chance encounter with a book
Date: 8/11/05 at 8:31AM
On the way in to work yesterday morning I met a book. This book to be exact. It was sitting on a ledge outside of Bank and as the area is usually littered with free magazines, papers, flyers and pamphlets I nearly ignored it - but I like books and the fact that a book was sitting there, with a curious little sticker in the corner piqued my curiosity - I turned back and rescued it...the sticker read:
I'M NOT LOST!
I'm on a journey.
bookcrossing.com
For those of you too lazy to check the link or too weirded out by ModBlogs interesting take on how links should be displayed in RSS, the link goes to a place called
BookCrossing.com. The concept (which I happen to think is very cool) is that you buy a book, read it, tag and register it and release it into the wild. Someone else stumbles across it or actively
hunts it, makes a journal entry on the website to let everyone know it's safe and well, reads it and repeats the cycle.
I had a look at the site last night and it's spread (since its inception in 2004) to nearly a hundred countries from places like Australia and the UK to places like Peru, Kenya and even the sexy sounding Royal Caribbean Legend of the Seas (which, unsurprisingly, turned out to be a cruise liner)!
I often feel when I finish a book (well, a good book anyway) that it would be great to be able to share it with someone but my efforts are often thwarted because people don't often take reading suggestions (from me anyway). A lot of people don't read anymore and those that do don't seem to be interested in reading what I read (see Shonas' reclassification of Non-Fiction and Fiction to Real and Crap for instance :) - it's nice to know that somewhere out there people are reading books that I thought made interesting and thought provoking points - I look forward to playing this game!
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