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Chit-Chat » Just a reminder that RABCKs are needed for the Summer Reading Program for grades K through 8 » Just a reminder...
surmisez 16 yrs ago
...that RABCKs are needed for the Summer Reading Program for grades K through 8.
Release Challenges » RABCKs needed for the Summer Reading Program for grades K-8 » Re: are ex-library books okay?
surmisez 16 yrs ago | 1 replies
Any types of books are okay as long as they're not falling apart. The program is trying to collect 10,000, so as beggars, they cannot be choosers.
Chit-Chat » Just a reminder that RABCKs are needed for the Summer Reading Program for grades K through 8 » RABCKs needed for the Summer Reading Program for grades K through 8
surmisez 17 yrs ago
Thanks so much to you all! The Summer Reading Program is looking for 10,000 books. That's an awful lot of books, and every one helps towards the goal!
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes » RABCKs needed for the Summer Reading Program for grades K-8
surmisez 17 yrs ago
Worcester Community Give a Book is looking for donations for this summer's program for elementary and middle school children. Two-thirds of low income families have NO books at home. I thought this would be a great …
Release Challenges » RABCKs needed for the Summer Reading Program for grades K-8
surmisez 17 yrs ago | 3 replies
Worcester Community Give a Book is looking for donations for this summer's program for elementary and middle school children. Two-thirds of low income families have NO books at home. I thought this would be a great …
Chit-Chat » Just a reminder that RABCKs are needed for the Summer Reading Program for grades K through 8
surmisez 17 yrs ago | 8 replies
Worcester Community Give a Book is looking for donations for this summer's program for elementary and middle school children. Two-thirds of low income families have NO books at home. They are trying to collect 10,000 bo…
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes » Ray It Forward
surmisez 17 yrs ago | 4 replies
Ray It Forward More or less it is the lazy way for me to set up a common BookRay. Ordinarily a BookRay has a list of participants and it gets mailed down the line to the last person who does whatever they wish with t…
Chit-Chat » ***********Happy Birthday to chambejd************** » Happy Birthday!
surmisez 17 yrs ago | 1 replies
Hope it was a great one!
Chit-Chat » I've never seen such a bunch of ungrateful ingrates. » Re: hey, there you go
surmisez 17 yrs ago | 1 replies
>Many of us > are college students, part time > employment, have families, other issues, > etc... Last time I checked, this was not a social service website. Get over yourself. If the forums meant that much …
Chit-Chat » I've never seen such a bunch of ungrateful ingrates.
surmisez 17 yrs ago | 34 replies
I do not come into the forums often, but I have to say that I am amazed at the ungrateful, ignorant posts regarding the whole "wings" issue. Let me preface by saying that although BookCrossing is free, I have always f…
Chit-Chat » Pedometer problem » Most all Pedometers have to be calibrated prior to first use.....
surmisez 17 yrs ago
.....and include instructions for taking ten steps, then measuring the total distance of those steps, dividing distance by 10, and then entering that answer into the Pedometer. This is your stride length. The placeme…
BookCrossing Site Announcements » Reno, a million thank yous for a much speedier site...
surmisez 18 yrs ago | 13 replies
Reno, I just wanted to thank you for speeding up the site. I really appreciate it. It is wonderful to be able to use the site and have it move speedily along. Again, many thanks! Sincerely, Tina aka surmise…
Site Questions: Basic and Advanced » It's taken me 11 minutes just now to release 3 books. Something going on with the site? » Slowness is getting old, needs to be fixed ASAP.
surmisez 18 yrs ago | 15 replies
I, for one, am tired of the slowness of this site. I have high speed broadband. It doesn't matter the time of day, or the day of the week -- it's slower than molasses going uphill in winter. I spend on average, over…
Feature Requests » how about some quick and reliable server? » Site lags too much...
surmisez 18 yrs ago | 1 replies
I do not understand why this site lags so much. I was attempting to enter my Wild Releases this morning and couldn't. The site timed out or would pop up with a message saying there was a problem. I finally gave up. I…
Feature Requests » Advertise RABCK.com » Re: Not in favor of this ....
surmisez 18 yrs ago
> I am not in favor of this because while I > think that rabck.com is nice for those > that choose to do it I do not think that > BookCrossing has any reason to advertise > it for free. Then there would be other …
Feature Requests » Advertise RABCK.com » Re: Advertise RABCK.com
surmisez 18 yrs ago | 2 replies
> > I agree! Its not quite the same when > you have to ask someone for their > address! Yes, asking for addresses first ruins the effect of a RABCK. Not to mention having to wait for a reply to the PM with the pe…
Feature Requests » A Bookcrossing chatroom, right here on the site, for those who have wings » Re: A Bookcrossing chatroom, right here on the site, for those who have wings
surmisez 18 yrs ago | 3 replies
Personally I do not care for chat rooms, but I would definitely support a forum for "Wings Only" members.
Feature Requests » Advertise RABCK.com
surmisez 18 yrs ago | 8 replies
I would really like to see the site RABCK.com advertised on one of the side banners like the "local meetings" are. I love sending surprise RABCK's and would like to see the word get out for more members to join RABCK.…
Site Questions: Basic and Advanced » Not complaining, but the site is sooooo sloooow for me. » Re: Mine has been slow today
surmisez 18 yrs ago | 1 replies
> from work with a direct line (usually very > fast) and now I'm at home with my evil > dial-up. Could this be due to the changes > with Ron's new site launching? What's the other site?
Feature Requests » Feature (removal) request for the sake of happier servers. » Re: Resounding NO to removing post count in profile!
surmisez 18 yrs ago | 1 replies
> > > Sadly, they do. They also start > > threads > about "how long has it > > been since the last > post in this > > thread" Well, that's a Fun and Games > > thread, and I have always looked at > it in > …

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