Book Worldline Site?

October 28, 2005 2:26 PM

What's the name / URL of the site where you could track the worldline of a book? I remember that you could put a sticker in a book with an identifying ID, and the next person to find/buy it would go online and read the book's past history and add a new entry. Ring any bells?
posted by signal to Computers & Internet (7 answers total)

Best answer: BookCrossing.com
posted by ericb at 2:31 PM on October 28, 2005

http://www.bookcrossing.com/
posted by matildaben at 2:31 PM on October 28, 2005

Dang!
posted by matildaben at 2:31 PM on October 28, 2005

Also - PhotoTag (pass-along disposable cameras).
posted by ericb at 2:37 PM on October 28, 2005

Response by poster: 5', not too shabby. Thanks!
matildaben get's a kewpie doll, 2nd prize.
posted by signal at 8:14 PM on October 28, 2005

I have to relate this story: one day an old friend of ours came to our house with a book. He had bought it either at a garage sale or a used book store far from our house. As it turned out it had an inscription from my wife's father (who had been dead for 10 years).

Through a series of unrelated events the book came back to us.
posted by Taken Outtacontext at 5:18 AM on October 29, 2005

I have to relate this story: (...) As it turned out it had an inscription from my wife's father (who had been dead for 10 years).

Through a series of unrelated events the book came back to us.

Sounds like Serendipity.

For Belgian readers, there's also a Bookscrossing-like website, Wilde Boeken (Books in the Wild).

The European equivalent of Where's George is Eurobilltracker.com. None of my bills has been re-entered yet, but it's still a nice way to pass some time when managing my personal finances.
posted by lodev at 1:09 PM on October 29, 2005