Video: Bookcrossing is a movement that turns the world into a huge library
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
What do we usually do with the book we read? We put it on the shelf and don't remember it for years. “But why leave it gathering dust if it can be useful to someone,” thought in 2001, Internet expert Ron Hornbaker, and invented bookcrossing, or “freeing books”. A person leaves a book in a park or other public place, another person finds it, reads it, then leaves it himself, and so on.
“What is bookcrossing? This is a book club that erases the boundaries of space and time. This is an association of people breaking stereotypes. After all, never in history have they treated books like this,”reads the official website of the Russian Internet bookcrossing companies. This flash mob, incredibly popular in the West, is gradually gaining momentum in our country. What does this have to do with art? It would seem no. But to culture and to creativity in general - a huge one. Well, what creative thinking you need to have in order to get to such an idea - to send a book on a journey! EI is much more long-term and global than, say, such amazing things as the record "smiley" from Orlando or "yarn bombers".
“What is bookcrossing? This is a book club that erases the boundaries of space and time. This is an association of people breaking stereotypes. Books have never been treated like this in history,”reads the bookcrossing website.
The essence bookcrossing is simple - a person, having read a book, leaves it in some public place - for example, in a cafe, or on a park bench, or in a hotel lobby, as the founder of this once did flashmob (which will now probably drag on for years, if ever) Ron Hornbaker. Then another person finds and reads this book. After reading it, he does the same - and so on. Thus, the book, and with it all those emotions that the reader has experienced, travels around the city, country, and even around the world.
Have bookcrossing there are some nuances - for example, just leaving the book is not enough - you need to make sure that it is found, and at the same time is not thrown into the trash can. To do this, bookcrossers (bookcrossers) glue a special sticker on it, signaling that the book is not lost, and put a note inside with explanations. Then they write about it on the main Russian site dedicated to this movement, they say, left a book there and there. And the finder then reports on the found book in the same place.
Despite the fact that this movement is still very poorly developed, a million books are already traveling around the world! A whole million pages saturated with joy, sadness, wisdom and other emotions of millions of people who have read them! Did Ron Hornbaker know what would come of it when he left twenty books with explanatory notes in the lobby of a hotel in 2001! Of course, given our weather conditions, it is better not to leave the book anywhere. In order to encourage book-crossing ideas, some places and even, surprisingly, bookstores have created so-called “safe shelves” - places where you can leave and borrow books for free. There are already a dozen such places in Moscow.
The ultimate goal of bookcrossers is global - to turn the world into huge free library … And this is great, because then fewer trees will be cut down and less money will be spent on books, while flipping through pages so pleasant to the touch with the thought that this masterpiece may have already been in the hands of a person from the other side of the country will definitely inspire awe. …
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