Free your books...

[senoritafish]

Like me, I know many of you are avid readers. How do your bookcases look? Are they overflowing? Or do you have books you can't wait to have other people read?

li_kao let me know about this, and I thought it sounded pretty darn neat. I know I have more than one copy of a few books, some I probably will never read again, and some I would love for everyone to read. This is like a tag-and-release program for books, a way to share your friends with others. You can register a book, then give it to a friend or just leave it somewhere for someone to find. Hopefully, that person will come to this website and make a journal entry so you can see where it's been. Some books have travelled all over the world this way. It sounds kind of fun and exciting to me. I know some of you do this to some extent already - wouldn't you like to have some means of knowing what happens to your paper friends? Check it out - I think it's a good thing.

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I've only released one book to the wild so far, but it was a pretty exciting feeling.

Plus you can get a free advance reading copy of a book, Wild Animus by Rich Shapero, too (look in the left margin).

There's a community right here at LJ as well -bookcrossing.

Comments

[li-kao.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in the biff thing when runsamuck is finished with it. And I'm always up for interesting manga. See anything on my shelf that interests you? Let's trade!

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Hoo boy, almost everything. I did read the Hyperion books - those were really good. Maybe I should read The Selfish Gene, to avoid that whole foot-ass thing...

I'm just a beginner at manga. I have the first volume of Gravitation, Dragonball and Trigun (which I only got last night). Want Gravitation? ;)

You're third in line for Lamb. The engineer of our boat wants to borrow it, too. I was going to just have him pass it on, but maybe I can give him an envelope addressed to you. Unless I find another copy first.

Thanks for letting me know about this. Coolest thing I've seen for a long time!

Sounds good.

[li-kao.livejournal.com]

Why don't we swap gravitation and Selfish Gene. Since we both want to keep those and just loan them with the promise of return, that works out perfectly :)

Re: Sounds good.

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Whoops, sorry, I didn't realize that was part of your permanent collection. But sure. It's kind of an uneven trade though - you'll read Gravitation in about 20 minutes and Gene will take me a week at least. I'll have to find something else to send with it.

I'm sure you read the summary, but you are aware Gravitation is what's called a shonen-ai or boy's love story right? Not everyone's cup of tea. I was kind of pulling your leg when I suggested it.

Re: Sounds good.

[li-kao.livejournal.com]

No problem at all. I list it as a permanent collection item because I don't want it to disappear, but I do want to share it. Don't worry about any unevenness in trade - just send along the Biff thing when it comes available :)

With regard to Gravitation, I took your recommendation seriously. I'm not a big fan of romance (I guess we can't call it a bodice-ripper if it's two guys, can we? well, I suppose it depends on the guys), but I do like manga/comic art that isn't childish, so if you liked it, I'm interested to give it a try. I don't have a homophobic cell in my body, so the gender issue isn't (an issue).

Re: Sounds good.

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

I didn't think you were. One can be non-homophobic and still not care to read about details. Not that it's graphic or anything. I'm not huge romance fan either, aside from the occasional Barabara Cartland when I was a teenager. ;) I can send Dragonball along, too, if it's not too childish for you.

I'll pick up some envelopes tomorrow.