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nillabreen
10 yrs ago
Box 2 up for grabs, box 1 on the way to bookstogive.
nillabreen
10 yrs ago
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I have two boxes of books that I can send for distribution in OBCZs. Most or all of the books are already registered. Send a PM if interested, (I *think* I got the PMs turned on again...) or respond here if I don't get …
nillabreen
12 yrs ago
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This box has has been claimed. Thanks!
nillabreen
12 yrs ago
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Does your OBCZ (in the US) need some books? PM me and I will send you a box of books. Some of the books are already registered. Thanks in advance for helping me prune my bookshelves.
nillabreen
12 yrs ago
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The reason why I didn't immediately think of sending them to someone with an OBCZ is that bookcrossers can be very particular. I didn't follow the rules. Not all of the books are registered, and of the ones that are regi…
Chit-Chat
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three boxes of mostly bc-registered books
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RE: Place a box of books in a busy shopping area
nillabreen
12 yrs ago
Well, what I'm actually looking for is the address of a real place that will accept these books in the mail. Tracking wild-released books can be fun but I think the best way to get books to people who want them is to put…
nillabreen
12 yrs ago
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I was cleaning out my bookshelves and put together three boxes of books that I was about to send to The Book Thing in Baltimore, until I did a forum search and learned that they don't want bc-registered books. I was goi…
nillabreen
13 yrs ago
Thanks for posting this link. It is sad that many major newspapers are axing the book review section. But the newspaper industry in general is not doing well. I hope newspapers focus on good journalism, because this w…
nillabreen
13 yrs ago
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This is very sad! When I was a kid one of my favorite things was my dictionary. I would look up a word, and then become enthralled with the nearby entries, which sometimes had nothing to do with the word I was looking u…
Conventions and Meetings
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Boston UnConvention 2010: Got pictures?
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RE: Boston UnConvention 2010: Got pictures?
nillabreen
13 yrs ago
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Come on people! I know somewhere out there are a whole lot of pictures of a chocolate Eiffel Tower.
nillabreen
13 yrs ago
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Hi Everyone,
I had a fabulous time at the unconvention. Thanks everyone who traveled to Boston to join us for the event.
I've created a flickr group to share photos of the unconvention:
http://www.flickr.com/…
nillabreen
13 yrs ago
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Really. I could hardly believe it but -- really. The founder Leonard Riggio is thinking of buying it and making it a private company.
What do you think of this? How will this affect books and publishing? Publishers…
nillabreen
13 yrs ago
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This book looks really interesting. Thanks for posting the link. Sometimes I wish I had more time for looking inside my own mind and other times I realize how ironic that wish is.
nillabreen
13 yrs ago
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Well, my concern here is that eventually the publishing industry will learn that digital books are a better deal for everyone - author, agent, publisher, distributor, and reader - because no one has to pay to produce, st…
nillabreen
13 yrs ago
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I just read this interesting article in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/books/22odyssey.html?_r=1&ref=books
There are new publishers springing up specifically to handle e-book editions of back…
nillabreen
13 yrs ago
The question about e-books vs. paper books and the future of publishing is a complicated one with many implications and variables. It looks here Amazon was going for a sound bite that would puff them up and make them lo…
Conventions and Meetings
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Boston UnConvention Website is live, registration is open!
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More labels!
nillabreen
13 yrs ago
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We have a new label design in the "extras" section of the unconvention webesite: http://uncon2010boston.com/extras/ This one is based on the image that will appear on the t-shirt. These labels are sized for printing on…
Conventions and Meetings
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Boston UnConvention Website is live, registration is open!
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RE: Woo Hoo! Booked our train tix today
nillabreen
13 yrs ago
Fantastic! We're looking forward to seeing you again. It was great that you made it to the July meetup.
nillabreen
13 yrs ago
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I have registered one book in the last four weeks. Today I made a journal entry on a book in my possession that I had registered a long time ago. Now my stats say I have registered two books in the last four weeks, but…
nillabreen
13 yrs ago
I just sent you an email about this. I can just enter your information into the database, since this may not be a general issue. But I'm going to be looking at the website in detail to see if I can find the source of t…
nillabreen
13 yrs ago
...in your forum posts and/or JEs; other types of HTML may no longer be allowed, but basic links should still work.I had a problem posting a link in a forum post recently. I wanted to post…
nillabreen
13 yrs ago
It has recently come to the attention of the organizers of the Boston Unconvention that we may have a problem with email delivery from our hosted website. Email delivery may have been sporadic. If you tried to contact …
Conventions and Meetings
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Boston UnConvention Website is live, registration is open!
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Yikes!! We just noticed rooms have to booked before July 1st!
nillabreen
13 yrs ago
ok I don't know what's up with this form, but it's deleting the 'updates' page. When I typed the last post, and when I edit it, I see the updates page in the URL, and I don't see it after I post the message.
The URL …
Conventions and Meetings
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Boston UnConvention Website is live, registration is open!
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Yikes!! We just noticed rooms have to booked before July 1st!
nillabreen
13 yrs ago
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oh my goodness... this explains a lot. Thank you so much for posting here about this and for sending a reply to the other message. You replied to the automated email that contained the password reset information from t…
nillabreen
13 yrs ago
I just registered my first book in bookcrossing 2.0 and got an error the first time I tried it. I went back to the form and looked over the input, and saw that I had not selected a category for the book. I chose a cate…