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uncle-steve
21 yrs ago
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Hah! Ya thought you fooled me! There are no lyrics to the Munsters theme song! Well, none that were sung over the opening credits like the Addams Family (snap! snap!). I'm not saying that there weren't any -- there are w…
uncle-steve
21 yrs ago
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I too, found out about BC through the article in the Morning News. And there was a quote by an author who checked the website and said "Oh! They have 75 (or whatever number) of my books." -- as if the books were stolen o…
uncle-steve
21 yrs ago
Getting a book "caught" is fun -- I had my first (and so far, only) catch just a week or so after starting here.
Just stay with it, and check the release strategies message board. That's how I got the idea for the one…
uncle-steve
21 yrs ago
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I think common sense should rule here. If a book hasn't been claimed after having been listed for four months, it's a safe bet that it's not there. I recently went to a couple of Starbucks that were close to home base on…
uncle-steve
21 yrs ago
The idea of "literary hotspots" sounds like a cool idea. I live in Dallas, TX and there is but one thing that pops to mind when people from outside of TX hear that I'm from Big D. Yes, the Kennedy Assasination and all th…
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uncle-steve
21 yrs ago
When I was on my last stint on unemployment insurance, I supplemented my meagar (sp?) check from Uncle Sam (or at least the state of TX) by reading a textbook into a tape recorder for a local community college.
It's a…
uncle-steve
21 yrs ago
Yesterday I dropped off a book at a local restaurant. Instead of leaving it on a table, I put it inside the newspaper box for the Dallas Observer, a local freebie newspaper. I opened up the box (which has a DO in the doo…
uncle-steve
21 yrs ago
Yes, I checked the lost and found. I had noticed on one (or more) of the message boards that this particular establishment (Starbucks) is notorious for putting the BC books in the lost n found. At each location I asked t…
uncle-steve
21 yrs ago
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I checked two locations today and found nothing. I wanted to post journal entries which would have saved others the time of looking, but couldn't figure out how.
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness
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uncle-steve
21 yrs ago
The book that got me reading science fiction/fantasy back when I was 12 or 13 was "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeline L'Engle. There are three or four more books in this series. Also, the Earthsea series by Ursula LeGuin
uncle-steve
21 yrs ago
No one was hurt. The mechanic was wearing safety goggles, but I'll bet he had to put on a fresh shirt
uncle-steve
21 yrs ago
Another Heinlein fan. Cool! I was turned on to RAH in college by a friend of mine. I returned the favor when I got his copy of "Time Enough for Love" autographed at the 1976 WorldCon.
uncle-steve
21 yrs ago
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I read an article on BookCrossing in the Dallas Morning Snooze the other day. How cool can that be? So, instead of getting ten to fifteen cents a book for selling them to Half Price Books, I'm sending out my excess booka…
