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- verb Present participle of
bookcross . - noun uncountable The practice of
leaving abook in apublic location to befound andread byothers , who then do the same. - noun countable An instance of the practice.
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Examples
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I have never read anything by Ms. Yoshimoto, but when I was a member of "bookcrossing" I would buy many copies of her books just to trade with (her books were popular with many of the members).
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Or, you know, leaving them lying around in public places for other people to read there goes bookcrossing.com! without paying the author.
An open letter to those terrified of e-piracy, by Gary Gibson 2009
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I borrow rather than buy books and use bookcrossing to keep books flowing through my hands.
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It will also kill bookcrossing and bookcrossing meet-ups good karma bookcrossing dot com, where you release the books you've read into the wild and watch as others make journal entries as the book travels the globe.
Incentivizing the Kindle Patrick 2009
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I think bookcrossing.com is still going strong, though I myself stopped doing it a couple of years ago.
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January 20th, 2008 at 4:39 am psychic librarian: are you talking about the bookcrossing craze that was sweeping the world a few years back or is it something different?
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I managed to get "Spook" on bookcrossing, so I can now put some other book on my Christmas wish list - I just got my new copy of "Pages" so I'm going to be spoiled for suggestions!
Spook/Ghost Hunters (copy) ____Maggie 2006
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I just discovered titlepage.tv through a link on bookcrossing.com.
title page tv 2008
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This is the title of an underground "manuscript" which claims to explain the construction of the Universe in terms that anyone can understand, it is being quite heavily shared around the world using bookcrossing.
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Labels: bookcrossing, dennis lehane, jaeson iskandar posted by bibliobibuli at 9: 49 PM
Archive 2005-03-01 Sharon Bakar 2005
mollydot commented on the word bookcrossing
The practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise.
"I'm going to bookcross this when I've finished it."
bookcrossing.com
December 20, 2007
uselessness commented on the word bookcrossing
See also: litter. ;-)
December 20, 2007
mollydot commented on the word bookcrossing
Hey! :-p
December 21, 2007
mollydot commented on the word bookcrossing
book collection: the offspring at one birth of a multiparous library
December 21, 2007