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(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness
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For anyone that's sent me a non-bookray/bookring book in the last few months
thescreaming
15 yrs ago
In the last month I've had five people PM about books that were sent but never journaled. I must have early onset Alzheimer's or something. I most likely do have the book, but haven't journaled it, I'm just throwing th…
Feature Requests
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Supply Store request - license plate (not frame)
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Re: Nice idea, but in Maine we have to have front & back plates so I
thescreaming
15 yrs ago
Same here in Maryland. But I could always put it on the dashboard or in the rear window.
thescreaming
15 yrs ago
Just about everyone listed for my town only log in when they pick up a book at my OBCZ. The majority of the time they bring them back to the OBCZ, but don't make a release note.
thescreaming
15 yrs ago
There are multiple listings for the Queen City Creamery. The one that should be used is "Queen City Creamery on Harrison Street" since that actually tells you were the place is. There is currently one listed that just …
Site Questions: Basic and Advanced
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*Time released* auto changes w/ every book I drop.
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Something I noticed tonight
thescreaming
15 yrs ago
Before I click the "Submit Release" button it has the current time and date, but after the page refreshes it's saying I released the book "21 hours ago".
Site Questions: Basic and Advanced
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*Time released* auto changes w/ every book I drop.
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OK so I'm not losing my mind
thescreaming
16 yrs ago
I was wondering how all of a sudden I was releasing a book at 11 pm tonight.
thescreaming
16 yrs ago
I also put a label inside near the BCID label that gives then name/address/driving directions of the OBCZ. I stole this idea from LyekkaMarengo.
Conventions and Meetings
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(Old message, now obsolete)
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We have a semi-regular one in Cumberland, MD
thescreaming
16 yrs ago
We meet up when we can all coordinate our time and want Chinese.
Book Talk
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$1Million Dollars for buying a book...
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How many other people received this message in a PM?
thescreaming
16 yrs ago
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Site Watch
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Weird message received on bookcrossing! EEK
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Re: Weird message received on bookcrossing! EEK
thescreaming
16 yrs ago
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That person seems to have an issue with a paperbackswap.com book showing up on BC. For some reason, the elitist over there don't like books to be registered with BC (especially if the description doesn't say that it's l…
Feature Requests
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Library donations as bookcrossing books?
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Re: Library donations as bookcrossing books?
thescreaming
16 yrs ago
A few of my released books have actually been donated to the library (not by me). Every once in a while I will go and buy library discards just to release; on more than one occasion I've purchased my own BC book.
Conventions and Meetings
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2007 Carroll County (Maryland) book fair (incl. catches)
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I wish I could come
thescreaming
16 yrs ago
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But my car is such a POS it would have a heart attack (engine attack?) by the time it reached Flintstone.
thescreaming
16 yrs ago
I had a few journal entries. The ones left near the treadmills and cycles seemed to get picked. The ones left near the body building equipment were ignored. The locker rooms were also good.
Newbies
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Church Hymn Book Should it be registered?? Turned up in my Spring Cleaning Bookbox
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register it
thescreaming
16 yrs ago
Over the years I've come across a lot of hymn books, and prayer books as well. I always register and release them. They seem to go pretty quick.
thescreaming
16 yrs ago
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/2807641
She didn't really like the book, but the blog entry about it was rather entertaining
http://taleswapper.blogspot.com/2007/10/ruffly-speaking-susan-conant.html
thescreaming
16 yrs ago
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I keep a spreadsheet.
thescreaming
16 yrs ago
When I have a surplus of books I always take them there. They go quickly.
thescreaming
16 yrs ago
I came into some books about coping with grief and left them at a funeral home. I didn't take them inside though. The entrance has a rather nice porch with chairs and a table, so I left them there.
thescreaming
16 yrs ago
I don't have a suggestion box or anything though, lol. That's why it floored me.
thescreaming
16 yrs ago
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Someone had left two sheets of paper with a typed list of the books I should bring. The heading actually said "Buy these books, I want to read them". Excuse me?? There's a friggin' library around the corner.
OBCZ Managers
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Dumb Question..What makes a BCZ 'Official' and one NOT official???
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What Firegirl said
thescreaming
16 yrs ago
An Official zone has permission to be there, an "unofficial" zone just has books dropped off at random.
thescreaming
16 yrs ago
That bugged the crap out of me too! The DA kept throwing around that spell. And isn't that a nonverbal spell to boot?
Book Talk
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HP movie 5.... what's better the book or the movie?
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Most people seem to have been the opposite
thescreaming
16 yrs ago
Before I saw the movie, I was told that if I hadn't read the book I would love it. If I had read it, I would hate it.
thescreaming
16 yrs ago
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> Some of the parts
> with Kreacher and Madame are hilarious.
> That was all cut out, except a passing
> look at Kreacher (and I don't even think
> his name was mentioned in the movie).
The script writer was g…
thescreaming
16 yrs ago
I wanted to see the flying brains, dammit!
