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Spurred on by Ade's enthusiasm, I have become so into this Bookcrossing thing, I can't believe it. I've put a big pile of books by the front door with instructions to my family to take some whenever they leave and drop them off somewhere (and report to me where so I can make release notes for it.)

Bookcrossing, by the way, is where you take books and release them into the wild to have adventures of their own. You label each one with a note and a special code, hoping that whoever finds it will go to the website and make a journal entry about it, but really it's just about the coolness of letting books be free and hoping someone else will find and enjog them. It's pretty amazing-- in this family of packrats it's extremely difficult to get rid of anything. The idea of getting rid of books is so painful to me, but there are just too many crappy old things sitting around, or doubles, or just things that I'll never feel the need to read again. I've registered 16 so far. Out of a library of thousands, but still, not too shabby, for me.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 3:56 AM | shower me with attention