Book leaves

Do you have a few shelves in your home filled with books you’ll probably never read a second time? Set them free with BookCrossing and join people in over 130 countries around the world already participating in a totally new spin on traditional book clubs.

Sign up to BookCrossing for free, and become part librarian, part sleuth and part treasure seeker. While switching up your library, you can explore and contribute to book reviews and follow your books as they travel by way of an online journal or live Google book-tracking map. Join forums to discuss your favourite books, authors and characters of any and all genres.

How does it work? Leave a book in a specified place for others to find and enjoy. Look for books on park benches, in coffee shops, in a gym, by a tree…and what happens next is up to fate. The world is a library. Right now, there are over 2000 books at large in Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, the UK and USA (with over 4000 books released in the past three days). There’s even one listed as released in international airspace.

BookCrossing a perfect green idea – reusing, recycling and…refinding.