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BookCrossing (free book exchange)
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Posted on 04/10/2009 9:02:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

BookCrossing Welcome to BookCrossing, where 761,808 people in over 130 countries come to share their passion for books with the world. Where books take on a life of their own. How? It's easy.

Simply click on the link below and sign up for free in less than 1 minute-- that's it!

BookCrossing is earth-friendly, and gives you a way to share your books, clear your shelves, and conserve precious resources at the same time. Through our own unique method of recycling reads, BookCrossers give life to books. A book registered on BookCrossing is ready for adventure.

Leave it on a park bench, a coffee shop, at a hotel on vacation. Share it with a friend or tuck it onto a bookshelf at the gym -- anywhere it might find a new reader! What happens next is up to fate, and we never know where our books might travel. Track the book's journey around the world as it is passed on from person to person.

Join hundreds of thousands of active BookCrossers daily in our many forums to discuss your favorite authors, characters and books in every genre throughout history right up through current releases.

Join BookCrossing. Help make the whole world a library and share the joy of literacy. Reading becomes an adventure when you BookCross!

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1 posted on 04/10/2009 9:02:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 04/10/2009 9:03:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv

I said years ago leaving books on park benches and other public places is ridiculous in these times.

Visit your local library and save your paycheck.


3 posted on 04/10/2009 9:12:09 AM PDT by bgill (The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
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To: SunkenCiv

I wonder how many of these books end up in a landfill after being tossed in the trash by cleaning crews...


4 posted on 04/10/2009 9:21:52 AM PDT by Cailleach
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ping


5 posted on 04/10/2009 9:53:21 AM PDT by stylecouncilor (The black man is keeping me down!)
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To: SunkenCiv

I suspect many libraries have the same system that mine does. I deposit any book I no longer need or want in a barrel at the library. They sell donated paper backs for fifty cents and hard covers for $1.00. It helps keep the library costs down, and enables readers to get a bargain.


6 posted on 04/10/2009 10:38:54 AM PDT by kitkat
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To: SunkenCiv

I’ve been giving out the URL to the site on and off for years, tho have never participated. I like their he discussion boards, where you can “converse” with people who share you interest in some authors or subjects. It’s been awhile,so don’t know if that feature is still there or if it’s still as active as it was.


7 posted on 04/10/2009 10:47:34 AM PDT by GoLightly
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To: kitkat

The local libraries all do that. They used to sell various categories with standard pricing — all hardcovers were one amount, paperbacks a different amount, etc — but now the downtown branch (at least) researches the prices. So I’ve probably made my last trip there. I bought something the other day that was pretty roughed up, but very interesting, and not too much (I think it was $4 or something).

http://www.worldcat.org/


8 posted on 04/10/2009 2:47:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: GoLightly

Thanks!


9 posted on 04/10/2009 2:48:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: kitkat

Down in Ft Lauderdale, south Florida, it was useless to try to donate books to the local library. They had a huge government-based budget and (this is a fact) preferred in the late 1980s to have empty shelves in their new $60,000,000 complex rather having “old” books on them. Friends would donate books on conservative themes, since the budget only went toward left-wing books, and would see them in the dumpster the next day. Left-wing librarians could not care less about access to books. Censorship is for them a one-way street.


10 posted on 04/10/2009 2:59:21 PM PDT by wildandcrazyrussian
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To: bgill

How fun to be a librarian!


11 posted on 04/10/2009 6:23:58 PM PDT by bannie
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