Shelf life: Library releases books into ‘wild’. (Missoula Missoulian, 8/5/2012)
Excerpt: Missoula Public Library has “released” select books into the “wilds” of Missoula through BookCrossing.com, a world-wide book sharing community. We’ve registered and “tagged” free books with BookCrossing Identity Numbers or BCIDs and left them in public spaces for lucky readers to discover. Each BCID is unique to each book — once it’s registered on the BookCrossing website, it can then be tracked as it is passed from reader to reader. There are currently 1,181,778 BookCrossers and 9,197,441 books travelling throughout 132 countries.
Related articles.
Online Diary: Technology. (The New York Times, 7/18/2002)
Spreading the word / Bay Area book lovers play 'follow the reader' in global giveaway with online tracking. (San Francisco Chronicle, 6/30/2002)
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