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Can someone point me in the right direction for labels?
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Re: Can someone point me in the right direction for labels?
nelle-tap
15 yrs ago
If you pm me with an address where you can receive attachments, I can let you have suitable files in both Word and pdf. I just used some text, a ballycumber logo etc and fitted to the template for the labels. I'll repl…
nelle-tap
15 yrs ago
I'd like to offer a ring/ray for the book by Laney Katz Baker, Dear
Stranger Dearest Friend. I will sponsor all journal entries from different people between 29th October and 18th December. (No need for anyone else to…
nelle-tap
16 yrs ago
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I can see how many of you have done far better than I, but I am proud to have registered about 180 books and have just passed the 100 releases milestone. Have also read more books since I joined at the end of October th…
nelle-tap
16 yrs ago
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Thw White lion Pub, Gt Kingshill on the A4128 between High Wycombe and Great Missenden, has agreed to have a book box, so I have taken a basket with a dozen or so books. I think this could be an excellent venue and the …
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes
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The Birthday RABCK Experiment - TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED -
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Sounds good - am I too late?
nelle-tap
16 yrs ago
This sounds a great idea - I assume that we are paired with someone and choose a book to send them for their birthday. Will PM
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes
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Dearest Stranger, Dear Friend - Breast cancer bookring - celebrating working together to beat it
nelle-tap
16 yrs ago
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This book is by Laney Katz Baker and is described as a novel but has obvious basis in truth and experiences relating to Breast Cancer. Sounds a dull read, doesn't it, but it is very compelling and it was not just I who …
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes
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Bookring (INT) in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month
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Dearest stranger, dear Friend - ?Europe branch?
nelle-tap
16 yrs ago
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I found this bookring idea shortly after I joined bookcrossing, which was 27th oct 2007 so bang in breast cancer awareness month and also very near the anniversary of my Mum's death from breast cancer (29th Oct 2004). T…
BookCrossing Site Announcements
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BookCrossing Goes To School
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Re: As a teacher I think that it must be a "protected" part of the website
nelle-tap
16 yrs ago
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I am sure various forms of protection have been planned as at the moment I think you need to be 13 to register for BC in the normal way. Given the amount of protection there is (eg people seem to love to use IDs which r…
Activists, Enthusiasts, Hobbyists and Wannabees
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When You Change Your Name, Post Here
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Re: When You Change Your Name, Post Here
nelle-tap
16 yrs ago
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What a good idea! I see it says that somethings follow when you change your name: I used a link when I joined that named Valer1ie who had changed to Versavisa by the time I clicked the link - the fact she referred me d…
nelle-tap
16 yrs ago
Have just sent a message to one of my contacts there .....
Hope it is successful.
nelle-tap
16 yrs ago
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Have a look at www.freecycle.org - if there is a local group I bet that there will be free books! Or you could say 'WANTED - books and say why - again alerting others to BC Indeed, if you had registered books and then o…
nelle-tap
16 yrs ago
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The default time when you are filling in release notes is the current time, yet surely most will register before they release so a default of one hour later might be good?
And they often register and release several s…
nelle-tap
16 yrs ago
I wonder if there is a list of unusual finding places?
Hope you enjoy as much as I am!
BookCrossing Site Announcements
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Leader Boards - Encouragement for bogus accounts?
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Leader boards and Bogus accounts
nelle-tap
16 yrs ago
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I am sure some must be tempted to 'tamper' the results etc, though it is odd that it matters to anyone that much. They must really value BC to want so much to be on its leaderboards! However, I think they must also have …
nelle-tap
16 yrs ago
A book basket containing BC books will be placed in Phoenix Hair next to the Odeon Cinema in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. It's online ID is set to PhoenixBasketGX and it will open during saturday 10th November. Ope…
nelle-tap
16 yrs ago
You could select a book you had liked a lot, perhaps even a topical one about winter or Xmas, and use the forum to say - hey anyone out there want to join [book and author] newbie bookring to start their bookcrossing wit…
nelle-tap
16 yrs ago
Welcome. Hope you are as pleased as I have been with teh community and the idea. Have you seen there's a free postage offer on labels etc to mark books you release, even to the UK? I ordered shortly after joining a coup…
OBCZ Managers
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Hairdressers as a Bookcrossing Zone???
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Re: I used to have an OBCZ at Austin Hair in Colorado Springs
nelle-tap
16 yrs ago
Thank you for taking the time to reply. That is really interesting, that it was only romances. I am sorting out a selection of books to start the zone if it goes ahead (no pun intended), and have included 'flick throug…
nelle-tap
16 yrs ago
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Well, have now registered 57 books and released 22 - all just about within 7 days of joining. Have one definite 'recruit' and another possible, and on the way to persuading a shop to have a Bookshelf - or bookbasket.
I…
Introduce Yourself
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Hello and help please from "Confused of Normandy"
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So sorry you are confused and ..
nelle-tap
16 yrs ago
I agree that the FAQ's are great. I joined just a week ago and agree that at first you seem disorientated - so much that is new, and nothing quite like it with which to compare. If you need more help, it is best for …
nelle-tap
16 yrs ago
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Hi. I have a friend who owns a hairdressers shop and is a vaguely interested in having a bookshelf. She has said that actually she is short of space on her shelves (I had thought of using one of the places she has towe…
nelle-tap
16 yrs ago
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Joined similar time to you, but have always loved books. Can't let myself go into a bookshop too often; the temptation is just too much. Imagine working in a bookshop, nice, but I bet you end up spending most of your s…
Newbies
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Asking for a RABCK?
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Re: Sorry, but what is a RABCK? is there a glossary of abbreviations anywhere?
nelle-tap
16 yrs ago
What a lovely phrase. Thanks for the tips re glossary. Should have found it myself but so new am wandering around like a delighted child in Aladdins cave.
Introduce Yourself
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Hello from Michigan. I'm new. (And old.)
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Welcome, you're just ahead of me though I am new and old, too
nelle-tap
16 yrs ago
Have printed my own labels for now - not sure how long my order will take. This BC is a splendid idea. And as a ps to the 'old' in the subject line, my favourite alternative is recycled teenager. I am from the UK, abo…
nelle-tap
16 yrs ago
Can't help coming back to see who has posted. Just registered some more books (18 so far) and sending 2 books travelling to-morrow. Have planned an outing to a local OBCZ on Saturday; there will be 4 of us crossing 3 g…
