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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. 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 one big book exchange.

Registering books with bookcrossing.com, then releasing them "into the wild" and following their travels, is infinitely more fulfilling than the small satisfaction you get by seeing them in your bookcase. 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 it's absolutely free and absolutely private, too. 

How does bookcrossing work?

It’s simple and easy. First, grab a book from your shelves. Register it at www.bookcrossing.com, write our Web site address and the book’s BCID number (a unique number that we'll give you, which identifies your book) inside the cover, then give it away or leave it where someone will find it.

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 (BookCrossing ID number), and label the book. Every book must have its own BCID, so you can track its journey.
•	Release it for someone else to read (give it to a friend, donate it to a charity, "forget" it in a coffee shop, etc.), and get notified by email each time someone goes to the Web site and makes a journal entry for that book. And if you make Release Notes on the book, others can Go Hunting for and try to find it!

Because books change people, and people can change the world.