Resumo de Bookcrossing

Bookcrossing is a global liberation movement of books. The main principle is to recycle those books you've already read to new readers instead of putting them back to bookshelves where they just gather dust. If you'd like to join the movement you can register at www.bookcrossing.com. A new crosser creates a user-ID and can also establish his own site where he can share his thoughts about the movement.
The liberation of books is done by leaving the in some public place where they can easily be spotted. Coffee shops, busses, trams, bus and railway stations, waiting rooms and even bathrooms are good places to leave a book. Before releasing the Book the "liberationist" registers the book. From bookcrossing web site he gets a BCID-code for the book. The sequence of numbers has to be marked to the book because it is used to track the books movements. There also has to be some basic information about bookcrossing inside the book. That information can be written by the releaser or it can be a small piece of paper ordered through bookcrossing.com.
If you find one of these books you can either keep it or release it in the wild again. The releasers find it especially nice to read information about the finder and when he found the book. The biggest fear is that the book disappears in to the great unknown. Then the releaser cant know whether the book he released has found a new reader or ended up in lost and found or worse.
Through the BCID-code the releaser can track the comments the book has received. Sometimes it takes a very long time until the book is registered again on the web site. One of the major reasons to that is that not everyone has an internet connection.
Bookcrossing.com was established in 2001 by Ron Hornbaker from the United States. He got the idea from the PhotoTag -project in which random people take one picture with a disposable camera. The person who takes the last picture return the camera to its owner who then puts the pictures in his web site. The main site is in English but there are community pages in several other languages. The 2 millionth book was released earlier this year. Bookcrossin gcan be done anonymically and the finder doesn't have to register as a member even if he reported the book.

There is a similar movement in Finland too. It can be found in www.swapparit.net and the basic idea behind it is swapping notebooks etc. with self written texts in them.

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