Thanks to Wombles and awaywithfairies for this.* The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has put up a story about BookCrossing.com. A young journalist made a post in the Chit-Chat forum, was helped into contact with some local BookCrossers, and had a lot of fun with BookCrossers, OBCZs and a spot of wild releasing. I love the OBCZ in the English classroom...

From the Netherlands comes a dream assignment for three university students: make a short film about BookCrossing! “The paperback Traveller” is a movie made by three students of the Eindhoven University of Technology in the period September 2011 – January 2012. Making the movie was part of the course Capita Selecta Urban design of the...

11 Jan 2012

A media mention in The Boston Globe, along with other brief mentions of other good ways to get books for free, which may be of interest to JJ and CR from the “Around the Modern Library” project mentioned earlier. With a subheading of “The books you read and the people you meet,” BookCrossing is a way to connect, as well as a book swap,...

8 Oct 2011

Sounds like a kinky recipe. Actually, it’s a place where you can find a free book, one of several in the town of Whitefish in Montana. The Flathead* Beacon has the story on page 48, where columnist Lynnette Cattron, otherwise known as “CouponingKalispell” talks about ebooks, libraries and BookCrossing. She’s in favour of all three and...

22 Sep 2011

From Saint Petersburg comes a tale of a BookCrosser – Vicki9170 to be precise – who sees releasing books as “giving them the wings to fly away”. The Saint Petersburg Times sent along a reporting team to interview and photograph Vicki, who has been a BookCrosser for over ten years. Smiling as she posed with a handful of books in their...