I Love Books!

Bookcrossing

I've known about Bookcrossing for awhile.  I think I might have registered and released a book or two some time ago, but I'd forgotten about it.  If you aren't familiar with the site, it's a place to register books so you can "release them into the wild" for someone else to find, and then follow where they go.  It's a book version of wheresgeorge.com, plus a lot more for readers and lovers of books.  There are discussion forums, and other fun ways of sharing books.

I just joined something called a bookray.  It's a planned sharing of a book.  The first person creates a list of those who want to participate.  They read the book, comment on it in the forum then send it to the next person.  They read it comment on it, and send it on.  There are books that have been going around the world for months and years.  I'm excited to be a part of it.

The bookray I joined is for Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey.  I'll put my thoughts up here after I've finished it.  The person who is reading it now happens to live close to me, so we might have an in-person hand-off of the book, rather than mailing it.  If you're interested in joining the fun, check out this Bookcrossing.com forum.  You might need to join first, I'm not sure.

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Blogging Trackbacks

I started this blog for several reasons, a few are obvious, such as I'm a reading freak.  The other reason was I wanted to understand and experiment with all the cool techno stuff that you can do with blogs (and my coaching blog isn't set up for).  Of course I'm a little behind the times and don't get how all of this stuff works.  Luckily there are people out there to help.  Kirsten Farris, who has Bulldog Marketing is awesome at explaining things, and she's the one that extolled the virtues of Typepad, ease of use being high on the list.  At any rate, I think she's finally helped me understand trackbacks.  Although I'm not sure I'm using it in the right context, I'm trying one anyway!