cenimo
October 17th, 2004, 02:15 PM
There's a website called http://www.bookcrossings.com
It's the where's george of books.
(If you're not familiar with where's george, go here:
http://www.wheresgeorge.com
On where's george you track currency and see where it travels,
bookcrosings is the same thing, but for books. But naurally, you don't spend them,
you "release them in the wild" (give them away).
OK, here's what I've seen thus far after about two years on that site.
I've released 124 books and have 4 hits. Of those 4, I asked for 4, sent a book to a friend, asked them to log it, so let's call it 1 actual hit. Some of the hits I didn't get were even from clergy I gave books to. I jokingly said, "The book is free, but there's a price, log it in on the the inside frint coveder." Nada.
The one hit I did get was from a 16 year old school kid who found a book I left at the library swap rack.
So are people just that outright lazy? I know a lot of people say not everyone has internet, etc....but some of the places I leave books are waiting areas in clinics. I hear people talking about different websites and such. So they have the net.
Just makes me wonder. Now there are some people on the site who have incredible hit rates but I'm pretty sure a lot of those are arranged. Let's all log our books in, meet at such and such a place, swap the books and report them as hits.
I don't know what the real purpose behind that would be, maybe they get some kind of kick out of making it look like they're super-active or something.
But this has all made me think about that's probably the way multi-level-marketing really works and such people make a few bucks while many, many others don't.
It's also made me wonder if salvation isn't somehow like that one kid at the library, there's this free gift, and even at that a relatively very few accept it.
It's the where's george of books.
(If you're not familiar with where's george, go here:
http://www.wheresgeorge.com
On where's george you track currency and see where it travels,
bookcrosings is the same thing, but for books. But naurally, you don't spend them,
you "release them in the wild" (give them away).
OK, here's what I've seen thus far after about two years on that site.
I've released 124 books and have 4 hits. Of those 4, I asked for 4, sent a book to a friend, asked them to log it, so let's call it 1 actual hit. Some of the hits I didn't get were even from clergy I gave books to. I jokingly said, "The book is free, but there's a price, log it in on the the inside frint coveder." Nada.
The one hit I did get was from a 16 year old school kid who found a book I left at the library swap rack.
So are people just that outright lazy? I know a lot of people say not everyone has internet, etc....but some of the places I leave books are waiting areas in clinics. I hear people talking about different websites and such. So they have the net.
Just makes me wonder. Now there are some people on the site who have incredible hit rates but I'm pretty sure a lot of those are arranged. Let's all log our books in, meet at such and such a place, swap the books and report them as hits.
I don't know what the real purpose behind that would be, maybe they get some kind of kick out of making it look like they're super-active or something.
But this has all made me think about that's probably the way multi-level-marketing really works and such people make a few bucks while many, many others don't.
It's also made me wonder if salvation isn't somehow like that one kid at the library, there's this free gift, and even at that a relatively very few accept it.