Camp-Project: Temporary BookCrossing Zone

As some of you may already know, the Camp will have a Temporary BookCrossing zone. For those who don’t, I’ll tell a bit about it here.
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For starters: what’s BookCrossing?**
BookCrossing is a worldwide grassroots movement by and for readers, aiming to turn the world into a library by sharing our books. And by books I mean the actual, fysical, dead tree kind.
The cool thing about BookCrossing is that it uses a mixture of old media (books) and new ones (the ‘Net): the books are registered into a giant database (currently containing over 4000.000 individual copies). They all get a number and are labeled. Then they are ‘released’ in one of several ways: given to a friend or a stranger, left behind in a public place, or sometimes handed to another member at a meeting.
The books can be tracked because of their unique number (BCID, BookCrossing Identification Number), so whenever someone decides to go to the site and enter the number, all previous readers will get a message and know where their book has traveled. It’s like a message in a bottle. Only without the bottle.

So what’s going to be happening at the camp?
Well, there will be several BookCrossing members from the Netherlands and Germany present, and we’ll set up and maintain a Temporary BookCrossing Zone, consisting of two bookshelves with free books for anyone who’d like to take them.
That’s right: we will bring registered and labeled books in English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish and any other language we can put our hot little hands on, and stack them in shelves on the camp site, and they will be free for the taking. You can read them on site, or take them home when you leave. We hope you’ll go to the website (the address is on the label) and enter the number so we know the book found a new friend.
There will be children’s books, too.

How can you participate?
The easiest way is to come and check out our shelves, and pick a book or two that catches your interest.
Another cool way would be to bring some books of your own that need to see the world, and register them on BookCrossing so they can start on their big adventure. If you want to know how the registering and labeling is done, you can attend a workshop in our Village, where we’ll explain all the ins and outs.
And of course, if it all sounds like fun to you (and believe me, it is!) you can join the worldwide movement, become a BookCrossing member and start committing random acts of literacy of your own.
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