Lukerik
Age 45
Joined Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Recent Book Activity
Wise Woman's Telling
The Basque History of the World
Beloved
New Selected Poems
A W E (Alarms, Warnings, and Events)
Chaucer & His Poetry
Fahrenheit 451
A Moving Target
You Cannot Live As I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life and Times of Willie Donaldson
diplomatic baggage
The Year of the Rat
The Muse
Rites of Passage
Fire Down Below
Close Quarters
Half a King
Shampoo
London: An Illustrated Literary Companion
A Very Distant Shore: Quick Reads (Quick Reads 2017)
The Weekend Dad
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books found | 0 | 238 |
tell-a-friend referrals | 0 | 24 |
new member referrals | 0 | 51 |
forum posts | 0 | 138 |
Extended Profile
Hello Everyone. Hello.
I used to get 'unsaleable' books from a local Charity Shop specifically for release and these account for most of the stuff on my shelf. They would otherwise literally have gone into the bin. The unsung Hero I got them off (Lance) often slipped a few beauties in amongst the dross, bless him. If you've caught one of my books the chances are it's one of those. If you want to play the BookCrossing game on a limited budget I recommend this approach. Lots of charity shop bin the majority of their donations. Oxfam (and I speak as a book sorter there) can be fussy about bookplates. We don't pulp books directly but sell them by weight if they're 'unsaleable'. Good copies will re-enter circulation. Bare in mind that if you donate BC books to Oxfam and the sorter is a BookCrosser you're basically condemning them to buying those books.
Books are like sharks: if they stop moving, they die.
Here is a map of the countries my books have gone to (in progess - I'll add countries as and when I go back through my catches):
visited 9 states (4%)
Create your own visited map of The World or Brazil travel guide for Android
I used to get 'unsaleable' books from a local Charity Shop specifically for release and these account for most of the stuff on my shelf. They would otherwise literally have gone into the bin. The unsung Hero I got them off (Lance) often slipped a few beauties in amongst the dross, bless him. If you've caught one of my books the chances are it's one of those. If you want to play the BookCrossing game on a limited budget I recommend this approach. Lots of charity shop bin the majority of their donations. Oxfam (and I speak as a book sorter there) can be fussy about bookplates. We don't pulp books directly but sell them by weight if they're 'unsaleable'. Good copies will re-enter circulation. Bare in mind that if you donate BC books to Oxfam and the sorter is a BookCrosser you're basically condemning them to buying those books.
Books are like sharks: if they stop moving, they die.
Here is a map of the countries my books have gone to (in progess - I'll add countries as and when I go back through my catches):
visited 9 states (4%)
Create your own visited map of The World or Brazil travel guide for Android