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Release Techniques » Statistics on effective release zones for wild releases (catch rates and journal rates by country) » Re: Restaurants as effective release zones and other factors
fedlev 4 yrs ago | 1 replies
[[It varies SO much because every book, every reader, every restaurant is different that I personally don't think you can generalize. I've left literally thousands of books in restaurants. Some have had good catch rate…
Release Techniques » Statistics on effective release zones for wild releases (catch rates and journal rates by country) » RE: Yu Li Master's Thesis
fedlev 4 yrs ago | 3 replies
[[is a great data source, link for automatic pdf download: https://pub.tik.ee.ethz.ch/students/2011-FS/MA-2011-10.pdf ]] Thank you! Fantastic work. I see it confirms the insight that restaurants are good for wild rel…
Release Techniques » Statistics on effective release zones for wild releases (catch rates and journal rates by country) » RE: RE: Statistics on effective release zones for wild releases (catch rates and journal rates by country)
fedlev 4 yrs ago | 1 replies
[[[[the only "hard" numbers I found are the 1-2 % figure for a big sample of crossing zones in Germany ]] That number is about releases in public bookshelves and other book exchanges, not all types of crossing zones. A …
Release Techniques » Statistics on effective release zones for wild releases (catch rates and journal rates by country)
fedlev 4 yrs ago | 12 replies
I have read several interesting threads on what are the best locations for a wild release, in terms of how many released books get found or receive a journal entry: https://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/2/535023/9395535 h…
Release Techniques » Best Wild Release spots? » Surprises, themes and origins
fedlev 4 yrs ago
[[Mostly, I've found that I get more JEs in two situations-- when the release is very themed (I'm guessing because people who are in those places are likely to be interested in subject matter relating to them), and when …
Release Techniques » Why don't my controlled releases ever get journaled? » Re: Keep it simple, any language allowed for journal entry
fedlev 4 yrs ago
[[ Might remind your friends that posting in German/French/Italian is just fine even if the book is English language. ]] This is good advice. Always consider the effort: most people do not usually write even a senten…
Release Techniques » Releasing in hotels: Yay or nay? » Re: Catch rate vs. journal rate in a restaurant in Portland, Maine, USA
fedlev 4 yrs ago | 1 replies
[[We've been releasing there since 2003 according to the oldest dates and it looks like there were 5,346 books released there over the years that were never "caught." That doesn't mean they are still there, they've all b…
Release Techniques » Free Little Libraries » Catch rates/journal rates for wild releases in Germany
fedlev 4 yrs ago | 1 replies
[[I evaluated several thousand releases at some public bookshelves in Germany recently and found that if I don't count catches by active bookcrossers (who journal everything that has a BCID anyway), journal rates typical…
Educators, Librarians and Parents » library software » Printing cards with Koha
fedlev 4 yrs ago
[[I did look at KoHa. It doesn't seem that it prints cards for the catalog although there is a user who has made an update to print cards.]] I'm pretty sure that Koha Suomi supports the feature. It's used in dozens o…
Italian - Italiano » è normale? » Ritrovamenti di libri in Italia e altrove
fedlev 4 yrs ago
Vispateresa ha ragione, forse dipende anche da quella che un'amica ha chiamato la funzione decorativa della lettura: https://librarianscape.com/2016/04/12/la-funzione-decorativa-della-lettura/ . C'è un certo feticismo pe…
Release Techniques » Do you ever have Releaser's Remorse? » Books never logged again and long forgotten
fedlev 4 yrs ago | 1 replies
Some of the stories above are heartbreaking or very funny, but they're usually about books whose story and travel you *know*. I'm more afraid of the opposite: the thousands or millions of books which were released and ne…
Release Techniques » Places to try/avoid? » Hanging from a tree
fedlev 4 yrs ago
Trees are apparently effective for wild releases: https://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/2/527844/9265756
Release Techniques » Recycled hanging bags for releasing?! » RE: Recycled hanging bags for releasing?!
fedlev 4 yrs ago | 2 replies
I usually manage to reuse all plastic bags for other purposes, thank you for thinking of reuse. The release bags are admittedly quite cost effective https://www.bookcrossing.com/store#!/Release-Bags-English/p/2007207/…
Release Techniques » Releasers Remorse part 2: The Perils of Waste Collectors » RE: Releasers Remorse part 2: The Perils of Waste Collectors
fedlev 4 yrs ago | 1 replies
That's very sad indeed. Had you used a visible sticker or bag?
Italian - Italiano » Bookcrossing all'aeroporto di Torino » RE: Bookcrossing all'aeroporto di Torino
fedlev 4 yrs ago
Carino: https://www.aeroportoditorino.it/en/tolive/airport-services/bookcrossing Non riesco però a trovare un utente per questa libreria Luxemburg o Luxembourg dalla ricerca (non ho provato la lista: https://www.bookc…
Italian - Italiano » Luoghi di rilascio a Milano? » Milano questo mese
fedlev 4 yrs ago
https://www.bookcrossing.com/hunt/19/533/96814 elenca quattro posizioni usate nell'ultimo mese.

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