How weird is that?! I remember someone (cant remember whom) writing a blog post about the BookCrossing movement a few years ago...and tonight for the first time, I found a bookcrossing book in a completely unexpected place: at a windy busstop in the rather forlorn area of town where I go for choir practice - Sydhavnen, close to Mozart's Plads. Three books were there, waiting for someone to pick them up, all labeled with a bookcrossing ID. I took one, a chick-litt novel, and left the two others behind for someone else. Typing in the ID on the site, I discovered that JaneKbh left it for me -thanks, Jane!

Bookcroosing now (according to their own stats) has 524,021 members and more than 3 mill. books in circulation. You can make your own profile on the site, write journal entries for the books you find so the story of the book is trackable and readable, and send private messages to other members, so I believe this must count as one subgenre of social software, nicely linked with physical objects. It started back in 2001 - so an early version too, but still a brilliant concept!
# posted by Lisbeth at: 23:30