I for one agree with you Marko as to sticking to Bookcrossing topics...i.e. BOOKs. I'm sure we all have other groups to chat in about other and personal issues. It's so easy to get lost in a thread like smoking, weight, etc. I'm as guilty as the next and will try to keep it bookish! Linda/CT
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marko Bomyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know that some people take the bookring and rays seriously, it must be very irritating when the ring/ray hangs or dies a death but... > > my understanding of bookcrossing was the releasing of books. I am not comfortable with the 'Don't send stuff to xxx as he/she is a hoarder' etc. > > PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not stop reading this mail now, I think I have something important to say. > > During the time I have been a member of this list a few regular posters have come out/requested support/just wanted to talk. We have always been supportive whether the condition has been cancer, depression, in one case alzheimers. > > So if someone doesn't forward your book don't immeadiately suspect the worst. Chances are that the person is a rat, but truth be told you are a little daft if you in truth expect to get the book back in the end. Instead, imagine the worst, what if that person is depressed at the moment 8 months is nothing (believe me from personal experience I can tell you depression can last 8 years and more). I personally can attest to one situation where I had the oppotunity to lend Harry Potter I to somebody. He took 8 months to read it, not because he was stupid nor illiterate (regular telegraph reader) but had actually never read any fiction since leaving school at 14, so found it difficult. Now upto roughly a book a month and loving it. > > Imagine the person you are attacking is an obsesive compulsive that is fighting the condition, and imagine the effect of your messages. Imagine someone trying to beat a drug habit and trying to raise money legally and selling books they get on the free to eat. Imagine someone with a drug habit not robbing your grandmother because thay have sold thebook you sent them. > > Unlikely yes. Possible yes. Never assume. > > I think (and Ron-Reno if you read these please post somewhere) there should be some guidelines. > > Rule 1 of Book Crossing : you always talk about book crossing > > Rule 2 of Book Crossing : you ALWAYS talk about book crossing > > Rule 3 : Don't release in books, that you in anyway you care about. (I collect Booker prize first editions, would not in a million years release one of these) > > Rule 4: Don't actively track your releases, disapointment is an inevitable outcome > > Rule 5: If someone posts a review get drunk have a party and celebrate > > I think I've said enough, I'm sure to be attacked for this but there you go. I view bookcrossing as a liberation thing as opposed to a competition.. > > Sorry if if you disagree but the recent thread was turning off bookcrossing folk. > > M. > > > > > Marko J. O. Bomyer > > Everything you know is wrong. > > --------------------------------- > ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/wnIolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Have you told a friend today? http://bookcrossing.com/tellafriend Archives and email list settings: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
