# If you love ( a book) set it free...(cool idea)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-love-a-book-set-it-free-cool-idea/114306>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 16, 2002, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-love-a-book-set-it-free-cool-idea/114306 "2002-06-16T04:18:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-love-a-book-set-it-free-cool-idea/114306/1 "2002-06-16T04:18:27Z")

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I heard about this site: [here](http://www.bookcrossing.com)

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> You’ve come to a friendly place, and we welcome you to our book-lovers’ community. What is BookCrossing, you ask? It’s a global book club that crosses time and space. It’s a reading group that knows no geographical boundaries. Do you like free books? How about free book clubs?. Well, the books our members leave in the wild are free… but it’s the act of freeing books that points to the heart of BookCrossing. Book trading has never been more exciting, more serendipitous, than with BookCrossing. Our goal, simply, is to make the whole world a library. BookCrossing is a book exchange of infinite proportion, the first and only of its kind. (snip)
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> But let’s get right down to it. You know the feeling you get after reading a book that speaks to you, that touches your life, a feeling that you want to share it with someone else? [BookCrossing.com](http://BookCrossing.com) gives you a simple way to share books with the world, and follow their paths forever more!

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I registered already, under Shirley\_Ujest, but haven’t released any books yet.

This is such a cool idea.

Just thought I would share.

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**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-love-a-book-set-it-free-cool-idea/114306/2 "2002-06-16T04:37:37Z")

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I’ve seen that site somewhere on this boards once before. I have three books entered–two were sent out in the book swap and one was released into the wild here. My name on there is ShadowKat; I registered after I saw it here on the boards that one time.