Sitting in Euston station waiting for the train back to North Wales, I notice a book, apparently discarded. On its cover is a peel-off label reading:
TRAVELLING BOOK
I’m not lost – I’m on a journey!
Pick me up, read and release me!
The label refers me to a website, www.bookcrossing.com. There, I discover that:
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.
I think that this is a tremendous idea. I’ve signed up.
