There's a story in the Wall Street Journal found here by Luc Sante entitled "The Book Collection That Devoured My Life."

Too bad he doesn't use Bookcrossing.

Today I found at the local used bookshop over lunch...
-Best of Weird Tales
-Best of Cemetery Dance v2
-Rincewind the Wizzard (a compilation of The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Sourcery, and Eric)
-Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (HC)
-Feet of Clay (which is to be crossed off my Bookcrossing wishlist at Cliff1976's wish list site ( Read more... )

I finally regained access to my my Wish List of books Cliff1976's wonderful site. My wishes are updated again after a mere four years!

A long time ago, I wondered what the most registered books were at Bookcrossing.com. The site used to have a list searched by ISBN but that meant a title would list multiple times under various published editions. I worked for hours gathering data trying to work out a better list but gave up. Checking the site today and there is now a current ( Read more... )

Regarding the Bookcrossing convention:
It's not that I'm fearful; I've been to Meetup gatherings and enjoyed fellow Bookcrossers' tales. I really don't travel well since I don't drive at night due to my eyesight. I almost want to tell resqgeek and skyring to pick me up so I don't need to drive but I really shouldn't leave my family in the lurch like that. I'm a ( Read more... )

Bookcrossing.com is a catch and release site for books. One registers a book with a special ID number and places the number in the book. When another person finds the book, they can log onto the site and read what prior owners have thought of the book or they can leave their own opinion of it. I've had books pass on from person to person multiple ( Read more... )

http://www.fayettevillenc.com/article?id=226935

Whee! One of the NC newspapers has an article on Bookcrossing.
FYI: It's not me in the article, but I can be excited for the coverage. I joined Bookcrossing three years ago when an article ran in the News & Observer.

I took ten books from the horde in my closet for Bookcrossing and dropped them off at the free item table at work. Already a few have been taken. The odd story is one was a book that I had found in a book sale two years ago and had written the ID# atop the pages when I got it. It turns out if I had opened the book, I would have seen someone else ( Read more... )

Alias started its fifth season last night. ( Spoilers )

-Beautiful clouds at lunch. One day I am going to start carrying a camera to capture some of these awesome scenes ( Read more... )