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Bookcrossing has been featured in major media outlets around the world, including

Austria
ORF (Austrian National Television)

Australia
Sunday Herald Sun
ABC Radio

Canada
Toronto Sun
CBC Radio

Germany
Frankfurter Rundschau
Stuttgarter Zeitung

Italy
Corriere della Serra

Netherlands
Algemeen Dagblad
De Volkskrant

New Zealand
TV One

UK
The Guardian
BBC News
The Scotsman

USA
The New York Times
USA Today
Christian Science Monitor
National Public Radio

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Want to know more?
Go to our Web site at www.bookcrossing.com. You'll find tens of thousands of book reviews, book ratings, book discussions and book recommendations, because each time a book changes hands, our members can leave journal entries telling the world of their experiences.

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Are you a member of a 
reading group? 
Bookcrossing is a great new activity for reading groups of all types and sizes. Be sure to let your group know about bookcrossing during your next meeting.

Share them — because books can change people, and people can change 
the world.

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 What is bookcrossing?

Bookcrossing is a fun, free, first-of-its-kind book tracking Web site for booklovers everywhere. 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 gives you a simple way to share your books with the world, and follow their paths forever more! 

When you are finished with a book, instead of just putting it on a shelf where it will gather dust, set it free for a reader to find it. The books our members leave “in the wild” are free ... but it's the act of freeing books that really points to the heart of bookcrossing. Our goal, simply, is to make the whole world a book exchange of infinite proportion, the first and only of its kind. 

Registering your books with bookcrossing.com, then giving them to a friend, a charity, or otherwise releasing them "into the wild" and following their progress and travels, is infinitely more fulfilling than the small satisfaction you'll get by looking at your books in your bookcase every day. It's also a fascinating exercise in fate, karma, or whatever you want to call the chain of events that can occur between two or more lives and one piece of literature. Oh, and we should mention, it's absolutely free and absolutely private, too. 

Thousands of people just like you! Our members come from all walks of life — and include artists, writers, farmers, salespeople, technicians, nurses, students, musicians, executives, stay-at-home moms and retirees. 

As you might expect, many teachers are active bookcrossers. They say that bookcrossing is a great way to finally get kids excited about reading — and sharing. 

Who is doing it?

Where are they doing it?

Everywhere! Although bookcrossing started in the USA, it didn’t take long to for the idea to travel overseas. Every day, hundreds of people around the world join in the bookcrossing adventure. 

Today, bookcrossers are active in places as widespread as Antarctica, Argentina, Brazil, China, Iceland, India, Japan, Malaysia, South Africa and Singapore. In other words, we’re not just in Kansas anymore.

 How does bookcrossing work?

It’s simple and easy. Just go grab a book or two from your shelves now register them at www.bookcrossing.com, write the Web site address and BCID number (a unique number that we'll give you, which identifies your book) inside the covers, then give them away or leave them where someone will find them.

The "3 Rs" of Bookcrossing... 
•	Read a good book (you already know how to do that). 
•	Register it at www.bookcrossing.com (along with your journal comments), get a unique BCID number (BookCrossing ID number), and label the book. Every book must have its own BCID number, so you can track its journey.
•	Release it for someone else to read (give it to a friend, leave it on a park bench, donate it to charity, "forget" it in a coffee shop, etc.), and you’ll be notified by email each time someone goes to the Web site and records journal entries for that book. And if you make Release Notes on the book, others can Go Hunting for it and try to find it!

Bookcrossing was launched on April 17, 2001 by 
Ron Hornbaker, President and CTO of Humankind Systems in Kansas City, Missouri.