Has anyone ever found/released a book crossing book?

I only ask because I remembered someone telling me they'd found one once, but I've never heard of anyone releasing them, or of anyone else who found one. Being in a smallish corner of Scotland, I'm unlikely to find one, or to release one to someone who doesn't immediately bin it!

Tell me your experiences (or lack thereof) of book crossings!

like cross dressing, for books?

no

Trying on different dust jackets and flouncing around in them?

its where you register a book on book crossing and leave it in public with a note and a serial number so when somebody finds it they can read it, go to the site and register that they found it, if they read it and then pass it on. I think its a totally groovy idea except for the fact that I'm totally selfish about my books.

yeah, not leaving my book anywheres. fail.

especially when I just imagine some idiot finding it and like arbitrarily destroying it.

that's what i like to imagine about ex girlfriends

I saw one on a table outside the student union once but I didn't take it. I think it was some generic fantasy novel. whatevs.

If you found one you wanted to read - would you (having read it) then give it away again? I don't think I would! Again with the possessiveness of books...

yeah, I think I would. I mean, the way I see it, it didn't cost me anything, so I might as well go with the spirit of the thing and 'pay it forward' and all that. unless it was something really cool and out-of-print, in which case, what are you doing leaving it lying around for strangers in the first place?!?

I released one once as an experiment: a dodgy crime novel I couldn't be bothered finishing. I left it on the keypad of an ATM. It was never registered as found.

There's a cheapo Italian food place in the city ('Fasta Pasta') with a whole shelf of Bookcrossing books, which is quite a nice idea.

I've done this a few times - about to release a whole lot more. I've no room on my shelves for paperbacks I've read once and am never going to read again, if I give them to a charity shop they'll probably end up pulped, they have no re-sale value. I suppose I could put them in recycling but somehow that just seems wrong. What else can I do?

Depends on where you live of course, but a friend of mine lives in a block of flats and there's a bookshelf at the bottom of it where people just put books they don't want for anyone in the block to read.

That seems like a nice halfway house.

Sounds cool. I guess this is pretty much like that but more hassle.

There's a little clothing shop on Culebra (Puerto Rico) that has a back room filled with books left by visitors. You just take some, leave some. Most of them are crap. There is no bookstore.