Bookcrossing

The Bookcrossing , otherwise called BC or BX , is a world phenomenon which one can connect with Wheresgeorge, with Eurobilltracker, WheresWilly, the Géocaching, the Cistes or more recently with the Postcrossing for the postcards. It is a question here of making circulate books by releasing them in nature so that they can be found and read by other people, who will slacken them in their turn.

The base of Bookcrossing is an Internet site, which mainly makes it possible to record the books and to follow their course. If somebody decides to slacken a book in Bookcrossing, it obtains on the identifying site single number (BCID for BookCrossing ID) which makes it possible to keep trace of the voyage of the book.

A French-speaking expression of the phenomenon is Livre traveller , Libérez a book or Pass-delivers but there exists also a Mirror site (partially francized) of the official site. (See additional sites)

History

Ron Hornbaker had the idea to create BookCrossing in March 2001. Internet site was born 4 weeks later, on April 17th 2001. It developed and counted more than 470.000 members and more than 3.100.000 registered books in June 2006.

In France

In France the bookcrossing developed in 2003 thanks to many articles in the press. First MegaBookCrossing took place on October 26th, 2003 when the bookcrosseurs of whole France found themselves. In November 2006 one counted more than 11.000 bookcrosseurs in France and approximately a thousand of books released per month.

Principle

After having recorded the book on Internet and to have stuck a label with number BCID and some explanations on Bookcrossing, the liberator can follow the voyage of his book and to see what its other readers thought, if the people who find it announce their discovery on the site.

To go further with BookCrossing

The “Bookrays” and the “Bookrings” are forms a little different from original BookCrossing: a person proposes to make circulate a book between readers who are registered for that on a list. Each person makes follow the book to following after having read it. The book is followed on the bookcrossing.com site in the same way that for ordinary BookCrossing. The difference between Bookray and Bookring is that in the first case, the book never returns a priori to its original owner .

The “Bookboxes” function in the same way. It is about a box containing a whole of books. Each participant, when it receives BookBox, can replace books of the batch by the same number of books. Generally BookBoxes are sets of themes.

Meetings around BookCrossing

The bookcrossing is release of meetings. Regularly local groups meet during MeetUp (reference to the meetup.com site which was a long time the organizer of these go).

In France and in some countries bordering MBC or MégaBookCrossing are organized. The principle is simple, during two hours, from the participants come from all the countries release their books in a park. It is the occasion many exchanges.

There exist also conventions around the bookcrossing.

Internal bonds

  • Postcrossing sending of postcards to unknown
  • Cistes drives out with (false) the treasures

External bonds

  • Official site of French-speaking BookCrossing
  • Mirror of BookCrossing
  • Wiki of the French-speaking bookcrosseurs
  • Blog/forum of the bookcrosseurs of Aix-en-Provence
  • List of the site support of BookCrossing in Europe
  • Postcrossing - exchange of postcards
  • Toy Voyagers - release of toys
  • the Franco-Italian site of Pass-delivers (Equivalent of Bookcrossing but with an incompatible classification of the books)
  • the site of the Books Travellers of the Committee of Action and Social advancement at the beginning of Sotteville-the-Rouen
  • the wandering book a site " local" of exchange of books created by the personnel of the library of Savigny-the-Temple (77)
  • the Work of the people - the books travellers

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