I'm an American now living in the Philippines. I'm been a compulsive reader since. . . well. . . since I learned to read. While living in the US I had easy access to millions of books via that great institution, the public library. Unfortunately here in this country libraries are very hard to find. There are however shops selling paperbacks that have been discarded from US and Commonwealth libraries so they've been my principal source of reading material. I don't save books because I travel around a lot and also because it just seems right to share them. So I've been releasing books for years; unfortunately I just now learned of BookCrossing or I'd have registered them here.