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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 follows up. To date, over 2
million books have been left and
recorded.
There are three simple rules:
• Find one of 50 books
that we have left
around (information and details will be
available in the forum of the festival
Internet site)
• Sign in this book
on the site
www.bookcrossing.com
by entering its BCID code (BookCrossing ID).
• Leave the book
so that its adventure
can go on.
Under the
Franco Irish Literary Festival,
for the fifth
consecutive year, we are organising, a huge
leaving of 50 books (in French and in
English) all over Dublin. The authors
invited to the festival will be fore
grounded, but also many Irish writers.
Meet up on
www.francoirishliteraryfestival.com
to keep up with the
latest developments.
Be ready in April, the book hunting
season is open!
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