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  1. Does anyone remember #BookCrossing? I wonder if it is still a thing. 📖

    It was about leaving a book in a public place so that it would be found by a stranger. You would attach a label to the book prior to its 'release' that included a unique code called BCID (bookcrossing.com/howto). So when found, the person would hopefully enter the code in the #BookCrossing Website and it would create a trail of the book, which eventually should be 'released' for the next person. Or something like that...

    I remember leaving quite a few books in park benches. But I never received a ping about their location, so I supposed they were lost or thrown to the garbage.

    Anyway, it seems that they are trying something somewhat similar in the #NSW town of #Braidwood, with the idea of motivating kids to read books 👍

    abc.net.au/news/2022-12-26/nsw

    #books