After a brief holiday and some research into providing more info for the reader I'm happy to report that there are now 10 books out there in the world at large fending for themselves. A small contribution compared to a web site I was told about today. It's called bookcrossing.com. Check it out if your interested. They claim to have over 850,000 people registered for the web site world wide. To be honest it's everything I don't want this blog to become. A commercial enterprise to be sure but let's not forget the goal of these sites is to encourage people to read so if it meets that goal then so be it. But that's not the way this blog is going to go if I can help it.
As I mentioned there are now 10 books out floating around various places in the US and Canada. I will reveal the names of the books and where they are located once the specific information becomes available to me. For now I can say that 4 books are in the Palm Springs area of California. I hope who ever finds these will follow the instructions on the sticker.
I will be completing my profile within the next couple of days. I also have started a spreadsheet to keep track of the books out there.
I ran across an interesting article today in the Globe and Mail which I would like to share with you. It led me to a web site dedicated to the National Reading Campaign. Here are the sites: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/national-book-count-aims-to-show-that-books-count/article1866480/,http://nationalreadingcampaign.ca/ ,http://nationalreadingcampaign.ca/web-resources/
Some great information and provocative ideas from these articles and resources. Have a look and when I get the discussion section of the blog up and running we can then generate some dialogue on the issues. I hope this is a good start to building a community of concerned people who want to be engaged in preserving the art of reading.
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