Dear readers, dear readers, Happy New Year to you all!
I take this new year to discuss a topic dear to my heart and about which I would like to share with you.
Given the title of the article, you guessed it, this is the BookCrossing . So what is it?
Well it's simple, the BookCrossing is to take one of his books and to release, ie to pass to someone who will then pass to another person. So on.
The "liberation" can be done by hand or in a place chosen. For example, I can drop a book in a park.
Once it disappeared, he begins a second life.
The concept behind is of course the exchange but also permit the tracking of the book at the mercy of people who recover.
Originally, the BookCrossing was created by Ron Hornbaker, an American who decided to create a website dedicated in 2001.
On this site, after creating an account, you can register your book in a virtual library. Then when you decide to release the book, we get a code you entered on the book and so that future readers to say: "I found such work to such a place."
So I also tried the BookCrossing , because I like the idea of double exchange and see my travel books.
Confession: I started to leave the books anyway I never replayed, even those around me made me go. Then, once the first San Antonio and other "Select month" "liberated" in key areas of Bordeaux, I finally decided to take works from my own library.
And to be sure that all those who find the books include the principle of BookCrossing I ordered zolies labels on the website I pasted on the back cover.
On these labels, we recall the principle of operation in ten languages, and records the code book that will find it on the site www.BookCrossing.com.
Each book released, I looked forward to the relevant web page to see how many laps of the globe he had done that day .... Well I know I'm a little optimistic.
After two weeks, after making sure that the book had indeed disappeared from the bench where I had asked, still no news! Nothing! No American greetings, no kisses from Antarctica and even fewer postcards in Papua! Arghhhh!
It took me to the evidence, my book had just disappeared off the surface of the planet!
Upon reflection, I imagined the following assumptions:
- Either I'm impatient and it needs time to "discoverer" to read the book before going on the site indicate that it has been found
- Either the book will find himself freed imprisoned without a word in another library ... Snif ...
- Let the guys in the street have done their job ...
- Either anti-terrorist squad has decreed my plastic package containing the book was actually a bomb or anthrax or god knows what what.
- The previous assumption works for the brigade anti-drug ...
- The extra-terrestrial! Aliens, my ancestors!
A year later, still no news. For any of the books released ... Have they been kidnapped?
Despite the disappointment, this does not prevent me to expand the concept a little and drop the whole "marketing".
Basically, I stopped recording my books on the site. Gone are the ISBN numbers, descriptions, comments, etc. ... And then I just gave my books.
In fact, my darling who put the books in the corner cafe and then as we have not heard from either, we have dropped the labels .... And eventually learn that the retirement home next door was satisfied. So our books
make our loved ones happy retirees.
In discussing a little to the right, left, and on reflection I realized that if the basic concept of BookCrossing , see his book passed from hand to hand and maybe go around the moooonde is really attractive, in practice it is ultimately a bit restrictive and very consumerist. In fact
sharing Book as proposed by the platform is a conditional gift. It gives the book on condition that it can travel and we realize how we were generous. Basically, it's a gift person, a gift that flatters the ego, certainly a gift, but enrolled in this twentieth century focused on property, on the need to live by and through objects.
One of my friends who have loved books and would not want to end up deprived of the joy of being able to read the scroll, perhaps feeling the smell of their pages, maybe a perfume, dust sometimes , found as a form of sharing multiple purchases One for him, three or four to offer its relatives.
He retains ownership but moved others to discover the work and to include their personal assets.
To finish this short article. Ultimately unconvinced by the BookCrossing collector and not enough to want to preserve at all costs all my books, I decided as I said simply give them away.
How is this possible?
Well I left the following findings:
- There are very few books that I actually reread
- If I need to find a book that I gave, I have all the chances, except when very particular, to find them later in a library or a bookstore
admit: like BookCrossing , it was not obvious at first. Never give a clear act, especially when what you give seems to be a mirror of self. In this case, in every book I found a bit of my soul. The books I read have all managed to make me share a story to draw me into another world. I have lived with each of them an intimate, unique. How to get rid of all these passions?
In pain first. Then out of envy that others are experiencing the same thing and somehow get closer to me, not necessarily tell me, but just by the act, the passage from one hand to another ...
Finally, I think I've found, for me anyway, the method for both exchange and the authors make immortal! Oh my!
For cons, I'm not sure it fills their pockets;)
The BookCrossing , how complicated when you can make true!
And you what do you think?
François Nicaise
I take this new year to discuss a topic dear to my heart and about which I would like to share with you.
Given the title of the article, you guessed it, this is the BookCrossing . So what is it?
Well it's simple, the BookCrossing is to take one of his books and to release, ie to pass to someone who will then pass to another person. So on.
The "liberation" can be done by hand or in a place chosen. For example, I can drop a book in a park.
Once it disappeared, he begins a second life.
The concept behind is of course the exchange but also permit the tracking of the book at the mercy of people who recover.
Originally, the BookCrossing was created by Ron Hornbaker, an American who decided to create a website dedicated in 2001.
On this site, after creating an account, you can register your book in a virtual library. Then when you decide to release the book, we get a code you entered on the book and so that future readers to say: "I found such work to such a place."
So I also tried the BookCrossing , because I like the idea of double exchange and see my travel books.
Confession: I started to leave the books anyway I never replayed, even those around me made me go. Then, once the first San Antonio and other "Select month" "liberated" in key areas of Bordeaux, I finally decided to take works from my own library.
And to be sure that all those who find the books include the principle of BookCrossing I ordered zolies labels on the website I pasted on the back cover.
On these labels, we recall the principle of operation in ten languages, and records the code book that will find it on the site www.BookCrossing.com.
Each book released, I looked forward to the relevant web page to see how many laps of the globe he had done that day .... Well I know I'm a little optimistic.
After two weeks, after making sure that the book had indeed disappeared from the bench where I had asked, still no news! Nothing! No American greetings, no kisses from Antarctica and even fewer postcards in Papua! Arghhhh!
It took me to the evidence, my book had just disappeared off the surface of the planet!
Upon reflection, I imagined the following assumptions:
- Either I'm impatient and it needs time to "discoverer" to read the book before going on the site indicate that it has been found
- Either the book will find himself freed imprisoned without a word in another library ... Snif ...
- Let the guys in the street have done their job ...
- Either anti-terrorist squad has decreed my plastic package containing the book was actually a bomb or anthrax or god knows what what.
- The previous assumption works for the brigade anti-drug ...
- The extra-terrestrial! Aliens, my ancestors!
A year later, still no news. For any of the books released ... Have they been kidnapped?
Despite the disappointment, this does not prevent me to expand the concept a little and drop the whole "marketing".
Basically, I stopped recording my books on the site. Gone are the ISBN numbers, descriptions, comments, etc. ... And then I just gave my books.
In fact, my darling who put the books in the corner cafe and then as we have not heard from either, we have dropped the labels .... And eventually learn that the retirement home next door was satisfied. So our books
make our loved ones happy retirees.
In discussing a little to the right, left, and on reflection I realized that if the basic concept of BookCrossing , see his book passed from hand to hand and maybe go around the moooonde is really attractive, in practice it is ultimately a bit restrictive and very consumerist. In fact
sharing Book as proposed by the platform is a conditional gift. It gives the book on condition that it can travel and we realize how we were generous. Basically, it's a gift person, a gift that flatters the ego, certainly a gift, but enrolled in this twentieth century focused on property, on the need to live by and through objects.
One of my friends who have loved books and would not want to end up deprived of the joy of being able to read the scroll, perhaps feeling the smell of their pages, maybe a perfume, dust sometimes , found as a form of sharing multiple purchases One for him, three or four to offer its relatives.
He retains ownership but moved others to discover the work and to include their personal assets.
To finish this short article. Ultimately unconvinced by the BookCrossing collector and not enough to want to preserve at all costs all my books, I decided as I said simply give them away.
How is this possible?
Well I left the following findings:
- There are very few books that I actually reread
- If I need to find a book that I gave, I have all the chances, except when very particular, to find them later in a library or a bookstore
admit: like BookCrossing , it was not obvious at first. Never give a clear act, especially when what you give seems to be a mirror of self. In this case, in every book I found a bit of my soul. The books I read have all managed to make me share a story to draw me into another world. I have lived with each of them an intimate, unique. How to get rid of all these passions?
In pain first. Then out of envy that others are experiencing the same thing and somehow get closer to me, not necessarily tell me, but just by the act, the passage from one hand to another ...
Finally, I think I've found, for me anyway, the method for both exchange and the authors make immortal! Oh my!
For cons, I'm not sure it fills their pockets;)
The BookCrossing , how complicated when you can make true!
And you what do you think?
François Nicaise
[putting the text of Francis online, listen Calexico, Garden Ruin (Quarter Stick, 2006)]
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