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Bizarre corporate sponsorship but what the hell... I found a mystery novel lying right in front of my workplace; it was labeled "take me home/free book!" and just look where it took me...

http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Friday, 28 May 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

D'oh, I made this sound like a Spam thread, didn't I? Well, anyway, if y'all ever find this thread I'm having a filthy fun time on their francophonic forum where a bunch of insomniacs are writing a long thread about a participant's breasts -- without photos! There's a lovely dirty song already... I feel like an old-time sailor man...

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Saturday, 29 May 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I started placing a few things on bookcrossing a year or so ago. No bites on mine yet.

― Rabin the Cat (Rabin the Cat), Saturday, 29 May 2004 04:30 (twenty-one years ago)

A quick glance at it looks very interesting indeed. A .com URL always makes me leery compared to a .net, .org, or .edu, but that's just me being overly sensitive.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 29 May 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I love this board's tender-minded and liberal impulses! There's a really striking difference of tone here than exists over on the sister board (where the big thread right now is 'Have you ever punched anyone in the face?'). The sinister nature of .com URLs, or the reactionary way we've branded the left hand 'sinister' (from the fairytales thread)... these things would not trouble most people on Everything. Everything is political, but on Everything it sometimes seems taboo to say so, and especially to parade sensitivities people might condemn as princess-and-the-pea stuff. But here it's okay! Hurrah! Out of small sensitivities come big worldviews!

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a lack of wisecrackery on ILB which is most becoming. ILE is like a big playground full of noise and football and bullies. ILB is the shady tree under which us studious types sit. Occasionally we get a ball in the face.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

The only thing I don't like about Bookcrossing is that they want you to buy into a whole load of stuff, like stamps and stickers and things. And they want you to put numbers in your books, as though they were little prisoners or something ("We are not numbers! We are free speech!" I hear them cry in the manner of the mice from Bagpuss or somesuch). I can't be doing with all that.

That said, I did get a free advance copy of a novel when I signed on to Bookcrossing. They posted it all the way from America, they did. I haven't read it yet, mind.

The big kids on ILE make fun of us. I've heard them. But they'll get theirs, oh yes. Jarvis has predicted it.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

They make fun of us? Well, why not? They have to live with everything and we live in books. You can feel their pain from here. They may be masters of the universe, Mr. C., but.. Anyone for Wodehouse?

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Make fun of us? For some of us who came here through means other than ILE, ILE is a noisy, contentious mythical land, where there be dragons. I have no sense of being a part of a smaller or lesser group of e-people. We are simply us, ILB, and that suffices.

― Rabin the Cat (Rabin the Cat), Monday, 14 June 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven´t been to ILE, but I think it sounds just like the ordinairy world. I don´t mind, because I stay under my shady tree, as Mickey G puts it, with me books.
I have never tried bookcrossing, though I´ve heard a lot about it and been to the website. But I could never, never part from my own books. Just leave them somewhere out there? Never. How could be sure that they found a new home where people would take properly care of them?

― Jens Drejer (Jens Drejer), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

They are only ink and paper though... you still get to keep the ideas. I have crossed a lot of books, but I'm getting kind of lazy now - it's so much easier to give them to friends or charity shops than going to all the trouble of registering and labelling them etc.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Ink and paper!!!!
Now I wish I could do a lot of angry faces, but I don´t know how to:)
No, they are my books and I love them. I have no clothes, I have no furniture, never go on vacation, because I spend all my money on books. And then you tell me it´s just ink and paper!!!! I know i´m pathetic but it almost brought tears to my eyes.
You can take away everything I owe. I don´t care, but don´t touch my books!!!!I can spend hours just sitting in a chair, staring at my books and rembering what they were about. I love them, they are my best friends. Not "only ink and paper"!!!!!

― Jens Drejer (Jens Drejer), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, sorry! Books are important to me too, but for their contents not their physical form. I don't like to own things. Well, just a few special ones maybe :)

Still, I can see how you might love sitting and looking at them and remembering what's in them... I do that too, which is why I get rid of the books that are not as important to me, so I can appreciate the important ones all the more.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 14 June 2004 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Quite agree. Those that are not important should defenitely go. That also makes more room for new books:)
Before I go to sleep, I love to chose one book and bring it to bed with me and reread a few different passages. Then close the book, close my eyes and then slowly bring the hole story back to my mind.

― Jens Drejer (Jens Drejer), Monday, 14 June 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

www.google.com

A little Bloomsday reference

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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