Let’s go hunt for books!

If you find a book in a market, bus stop, park bench, or any public place that seems to be forgotten by his or her owner, look inside the book cover for a Book Crossing label. If you find one, it means that this book was left there for you to pick it up, read it, and “release it” at another public spot for others to read. This book can then travel from hand to hand, from person to person, between cities and even countries. The purpose of Book Crossing is to transform the world in a big library.

Right now, there are 585,204 people from 130 countries in the world participating in this project. To get involved, you can visit the Book Crossing web site, sign up and then participate by “releasing” some of your favorite books or by “catching” the books left by others. The Book Crossing web site is a fundamental tool of this project. Here, you can find information about places where certain books were released, or you might find the information about somebody who caught one of your books. But what is more important, this web site provides forums where people share ideas about this project and the books they have read through it. In a way, this is like a big book club.

Do you want to know which books have been released here in Austin? Let’s go see!