Oops, you got me... Very sorry that I have mislead you to assume, my BookCrossing-Blog
would also exist in an English version. Well, in some ways, it does. There are some posts of interest
(ok, of which I think they could be of interest for our English speaking friends), which has been and will be
translated. The original German post get a link to the English version and all those posts are kept together
on this English custom page. Maybe not what you expected, but hopefully it will not scare you away.
Enjoy!
Target is, to release at least one book in every country of the world (and get a caught as proof). This idea has been brought in 2004 by BC-member charbono: around the world in 233 books.
Besides the jointly challenge (a group of BookCrosser try each year to release at least one book in each country), there exist some “hardliner”, who took this challenge as a life-task. Of course, this cannot be done overnight, therefor we call it a Lifetime-Challenge.
A list of those hardliners, who keep the progress of their challenge in a virtual book on BookCrossing.com, can be found on this page.
The German UmConvention will be held in May 2012, from 10th to 13th. The event-location is the A&O Hotel/Hostel am Hauptbahnhof Berlin, which a combines cheaper hostel, budget hotel and the meeting-room(s) all together. More information about the location can be found in the English forum thread.
You can now register on the UnCon Website: Until 31. March 2012, tickets will cost 15€ for all 4 days or 4€ each for a friday or sunday visit and 8€ for a saturday visit. From 1st April, tickets will cost 20€ for all 4 day or 6€ each for a friday or sunday visit and 10€ for a saturday visit. Visit on Thursday is always free.
Curious who is coming? Here is the list of attendees.
The program will be as usual: lots of fun, lots of books, release-walks, geocaching, etc. And if you are worried not knowing (enough) German, be assured, a lot of BookCrossers, who will attend, do speak English from fluently to a mixed-up language anyway. And for sure, at the end of the convention, you will know how to swear in German…
With the Journal Entry Quota I refer to the response given by finders of BookCrossing books. It’s a fact that the books we release are found. Sometimes, they disappear only minutes later, and it rarely happens that a book remains at the release site for longer than a day – unless the release site happens to be in the middle of a forest or in an equally deserted spot.
But even though all those books are picked up, we’ll get a response for merely 10 to 20 percent of all releases. This number is a rough estimate, based on the long-standing experience of active BookCrossers. Since about a year, though, this rate is extremely regressive [german], following the upgrade of BookCrossing.com in June 2010. We’ll get back to this in a moment.
Therefore, we need to ask the following question: What happens with the books when they are found?
Attention: End of registration is 15th August, although it will be still possible to register on short notice after that date. Only, you probably will not get a goodie bag then… Questions and answers at the forum :-)
3 new (German) pages are introduced on this German Supportsite Blog:
First, a list of all – well, as long as I have gotten the message – meetups, which takes place in the next 30 days in the German region, mostly Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Either they have links to the (German) forum, or to the second list.
Second, a list of all – again, as long as I have gotten the message – meetups, which are based on a regular sequence. Along with this page, you also get a nice google map for orientation. Some regular meetups are each month in another location, which will be announced on the next 30 days list or in the (German) forum.
Some weeks ago, a German marketing company from Berlin had contacted me for ads on my supportsite as also for laying connections to the BCHQ. They were doing the job for the biggest bookseller in Germany, Thalia. Now, the contact to BCHQ were finally laid at the Anniversary Convention in Washington DC 2 weeks ago, as for the ads on the supportsite, I declined as I don’t want to strike down those visitors who are interested in BookCrossing.
Here it is, 8 years after I discovered BookCrossing, the German Support Site’s new look. Over the year BookCrossing has changed its look and so the Supportsite. The latest change of BookCrossing.com in May 2010 brought us the long desired localization, which also means, that the focus of the German Support Site had to change: it is no longer needed to provide step by step instructions of how bookcrossing works. Although…
But many of his friends have their big appearance…
