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2024 BC 24 hour Readathon - April 27th
March 17, 2024
Given the vast spread of BookCrossers around the world, the aim is that from 12:00am - 11:59pm Pacific Time Zone (PDT) on April 27th, there will be a BookCrosser somewhere in the world who is reading a book as part of this Readathon! We hope that the... more »
Special Wings for the Convention are now available
March 16, 2024
This one is for all the Conventioneers, plus all those who will be joining them in spirit, as well as for all the Finnish members and... well, for anyone who likes them! We've just added two brand new sets of Wings for you to wear, to celebrate the 2... more »
News from the Store: Tampere Finland Convention Bookplates
March 8, 2024
The 2024 BookCrossing Convention bookplates for Tampere Finland are now available for purchase from the Supply Store! Both English and Finnish (Suomi) versions have been made available by our Supply Store Manager - thank you Moem! - on the front page... more »
World Book Night 2024 - Tuesday 23 April
March 7, 2024
World Book Night 2024 will take place on Tuesday 23 April, & BookCrossers can get involved! World Book Night is for everyone, whether you read regularly or less often, it is the perfect opportunity to celebrate books and the difference they make ... more »
Round 15 Support BookCrossing - Supply Store Sweepstake is here!
March 5, 2024
J4shaw is back again with Round 15 of the Support BC - Supply Store Sweepstakes! Since starting this Sweeps back in June 2015, the collective amount raised is OVER US$11,850 / £9360... more »
Let's make it an Official BookCrossing Zone (OBCZ)!
March 3, 2024
Do you have a Little Free Library, Book Swap box, own a cafe, or business that has a bookshelf? If you're happy to receive BookCrossing books there, you could make it an Official BookCrossing Zone (OBCZ), giving you free advertising and it be clearly... more »
News from the Store: order your BC Day supplies now!
February 20, 2024
The new supplies for this year's round of BookCrossing Day have hit the Store! Pixette's lovely labels are available for purchase now, as well as previous editions. Don't wait too long to order them,... more »
Join Mankyi's Silent Bookclub this weekend
February 15, 2024
Looking for a fun BookCrossing activity this weekend? How about something you can do from home? Mankyi is organising a Silent BookCrossing Bookclub this Saturday, 17th February at 19.00 CET ( UTC/GMT+1) . It's being held online on Zoom, so it's w... more »
BC Day Contest 2024: the winners!
February 13, 2024
Ballycumber has just announced the winners in this year's edition of the BookCrossing Day Contest. As you know, this decides this year's new BookCrossing Day bookplate. You are probably eager to find out what it will look like... So please go to the ... more »
BC Day Contest 2024: Vote now!
February 2, 2024
Voting for the BookCrossing Day Bookplate for 2024 is now open. You can feast your eyes on the entries, and vote for your favourite, here. Pick the one the one that you feel best represents BookCrossing to the finders of our... more »
TECH TEAM - site outages & slow speeds
January 25, 2024
Sorry for the outage earlier, we experienced almost an hour of the website being unusable. WHAT CAUSES THIS? We regularly experience 'Bot traffic' (aka search engine crawlers) which is a very normal thing on the internet, and they take up ser... more »
TECH TEAM - site throwing error messages
January 12, 2024
Our Tech Team have today provided us with the following message regarding the site being so difficult to use this past week, with regular timeout and error messages. You can read the message here in the more »
Calling all creative BCers - 2024 BookCrossing Day Contest
January 7, 2024
Attention, all creative BookCrossers! It's time to start drawing, photographing, knitting, sculpting, or painting for this year's BookCrossing Day Contest. Please see the forum post for full details more »
Ballycumber's Best Wishes.... and more
January 1, 2024
A very Happy New Year to BookCrossing members all over the world! Our very own Ballycumber just posted in the Announcements forum to speak a few words on the memorable occasion of a brand new year, and to announce the next BookCrossing Day Contest. P... more »
Registration is now open for the 2024 BookCrossing Convention!
November 30, 2023
Registration is now open for the 2024 BookCrossing Convention in Finland! Click the link below to be taken directly to the registration page: Tampere, Finland : 19th-21st April 2024 You can... more »
Your Supply Store order... and your email address
November 27, 2023
A few words from your Supply Store manager, who has something to say about email addresses. Lately we're seeing some orders that were made from a different addres than the one in the member's profile. This is a problem, as the email address is what t... more »
News from the RABCK forum: Secret Santa exchange 2023
November 2, 2023
Secret Santa is a Western Christmas tradition in which members of a group or community are randomly assigned a person to whom they give a gift. The identity of the gift giver is to remain a secret and should not be revealed. Entries for 2023 BookCros... more »
BookCrossing Convention 2024 - Welcome to Tampere!
October 27, 2023
On behalf of our BookCrossing friends in Finland, we are excited to announce that the 2024 BookCrossing Convention will be held in the city of Tampere in southern Finland! The event will be on 19th - 21st April 2024, and the venue is in Centrum, clos... more »
News from our Region Clean Up Team - We should probably tidy up!
October 20, 2023
As you may recall, during Covid-19 we halted some of our Region Clean Up efforts in regards to zones, as it was unclear at that time what zones were closing temporarily, and which were closing permanently. We have for most of this year been back in t... more »
Did someone mention Christmas!?
October 19, 2023
We know, we know......it's October! Over in the (Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness forum, there are two of the Secret Santa threads now live and accepting participants for 2023 Christ... more »

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