On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Maor Meir wrote: > > > On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Orna Agmon wrote: > > > Hello all, book worms, book crossers, penguins and others, > > > > We are going to have the opportunity to > > book cross on Welcome to Linux this year. For those > > of you who do are not familiar with the concept, I have adapted the August > > Penguin bookcrossing page (in Hebrew), which is now at: > > > > http://www.haifux.org/newcomers/timetable.html > > > > (Original site at http://www.bookcrossing.org . ) > > What is the virtue of using bookcrossing.org? > I see why swapping books in this fashion is a good idea, > but why bother with regestration and numbers? > > Meir. >
You do not really have register them. Some people enjoy tacking the books they read and/ or released, see where they got, who read them, who liked them. Like watching a message in a bottle. Another plus of using the site, is that you can know in advance which books are going to be released, based of the release zone. For example, you can check my bookshelf there, and know what I am about to release tomorrow: http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/ladypine You can also trace books whioch have been released already, and go look for them. (books in the wild). Of course, if you wish just to release books, and not register them, you are welcome to do so, as people have been doing for quite some time before www.bookcrossing.org. Orna. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
