BookCrossing
n. the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise.
(added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary in August 2004)
Welcome to BookCrossing Singapore!
The 3Rs of BookCrossing
- Read a good book (you already know how to do that)
- Register it here (along with your journal comments), get a unique BCID (BookCrossing ID number), and label the book .
- Release it for someone else to read (give it to a friend, leave it on a park bench, donate it to charity, "forget" it in a coffee shop, etc.), and get notified by email each time someone comes here and records a journal entry for that book. And if you make Release Notes on the book, others can Go Hunting for it and try to find it!
Bookcrossing Sngapore came about in 2004 when a campaign "Pass It On" started with National Library Bard (NLB), Singtel and Starbucks where readers picked a book from Starbucks Café, read it and passed it on to another Starbucks outlet.
The Bookcrossing concept had already been started by a book enthusiast named Ron Hornbaker only that it had yet to materialize. Two avid readers decided to make it happen!
In Feb 2004, Bookcrossing members held their first Bookcrossing meeting at the now demolished National Library at Stamford; Singapore’s oldest library. During that time, the true concept of Bookcrossing was shared amongst the pioneer members who attended the meetup then.
Copyright 2007© BookCrossing Singapore. All rights reserved.
Sponsored by Stridec Creatives. Powered by ZippyWebDesign.
Sponsored by Stridec Creatives. Powered by ZippyWebDesign.