Bookcrossing Books In Caches

[TimSkells]

I dont like this idea Bookcrossing is a whole different idea about leaving a book some where for someone to read and see who picks it up. They shouldnt be in caches. Then again Wheres George bills are too. Hmm Mabey those shouldnt be in caches either. I dont know. What do you think? I mean a WG bill in a cache is just like a travel bug.

So why have bookcrossing books and WG bills in caches?

[+Doc-Dean]

Why should you care if they are in caches or not??

If you don't care for them, then leave them for the next person...

 

Others enjoy both bookcrossing books and Wheres George dollars...

Its a game... enjoy it!

[TimSkells]

yes but doesnt it defeat the purposes for the bookcrossing idea and WG idea?

[+welch]

yes but doesnt it defeat the purposes for the bookcrossing idea and WG idea?

Both sites get promoted to cachers, and neither AFAIK has asked for 'their' specific items not be cached away.

Bookcrossing.com is to track where a book goes right? I would and have put books in caches, so why not try and track them after they leave the cache ?

I don't put 'naked' money in caches, but some might and probably has, so this is in a sense natural. So Wheresgeorge bills are fine by me.

[+rooboy]

Each to their own. As Doc-Dean says, if you no like books, then don't take.

 

In fact I took a book from a cache today, Bill Bryson's very funny A Walk in the Woods, not because I wanted to read it (I already have read this book), but to make some room in the cache for what I wanted to leave.

 

Ciao

Rooboy

[+CYBret]

I've seen a good number of bookcrossing books that were listed as being given to someone's friend with the intent that they be passed on. I'm guessing a good number of them never are. At least when they're in geocaches they're "in the wild."

 

I've placed a few in caches and have even toyed with the idea of a bookcrossing/travelbug hybrid. Haven't quite worked all the details out yet, but it could be interesting.

 

Bret

[+jonboy]

I have just discovered bookcrossing.com and think it is a great idea. After all the junk and detritus I have found in caches, I would much rather find a book I might want to read. It allows a person to place something of value in a cache, with no real cost to themselves, since they have already read the book. The only thing I would say is make a good book, not some piece of junk that would be better thrown out. They do tend to take up all the free space in a cache, and I have taken books out of caches just to make room, but I don't understand the objection to bookcrossing.com as some kind of competing concept. I would rather track the progress of a book than the progress of a dollar bill, but then that is just a reflection of my values and interests. If it doesn't interest you, don't do it.

[+briansnat]

I've put bookcrossing books in caches. Whats the difference if I leave it in a cache, on a bench in the Port Authority, or give it to a friend? I thought the point of bookcrossing was to track the book and see what people think of it. It doesn't matter how they got it.

[+bons]

Actually, my wife and I were talking about that last night as we drove by a nice city park near the airport. The cache was one I had talked about earlier, called "TB reading room". The thought was that if it was a 1/1 near an airport then bugs coming into or leaving town would have a quick last minute drop off point and travellers could leave whatever book they finished reading on the plane for the next person to read on their next flight. Possibly a couple maps of the city as well for people to grab as they drop off books.

 

Besides, I've left books in caches before. Harry Potter and the Secret Cache started out with a Harry Potter book (for obvious reasons). It seemed appropriate then. If it had been a bookcrossing book would it have made it inappropriate, just because it had a sticker on the inside cover?

 

Edit: I resisted typing this and then came back.

I keep thinking how leatherman tools are banned because children might accidentally hurt themselves. Should be ban books in caches so that children don't accidentally learn anything?

Edited January 1, 2004 by bons

[+TeamK-9]

I don't know exactly how to respond to the Where's George debate, but Bookcrossing, it's not just seeing how books circulate when left in the wild, the purpose is more of letting people read books, review books, and overall become more literate, not just watch books as they move around...

[+YodaDoe]

I don't know exactly how to respond to the Where's George debate, but Bookcrossing, it's not just seeing how books circulate when left in the wild, the purpose is more of letting people read books, review books, and overall become more literate, not just watch books as they move around...

I'm an active member of W.G., so I can comment. Hank Eskin, the owner of W.G., takes a very active role in the function and fair use of his website. He spends lots of time correcting abuse of the site and laying down rules. He is fully aware of the fact that many people put bills marked with W.G. into geocaches and has no problem with it. The only special treatment for geocache bills is that, when those bills begin receiving a lot of entries (aka, "hits"), the bills are officially tagged as geocache bills, which removes them from all of the "Top Bills" categories. For instance, the most "hits" any one bill has is 13 hits. But there are probably many geocache bills that have more hits... but they aren't eligible.

 

I started a cache this weekend and placed two $2 bills that I've marked and entered at W.G. But so far, I've been getting "Took-Nothing" visitors to my cache and they haven't gone anywhere!

 

YodaDoe

[warrior41882]

Here in my neck of the woods we have a cache that is a library.

That is you leave a book and take a book.

I havent been to it yet but is on the list to do.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...30-b25031b8abf9

[+Renegade Knight]

SWAG vs. Trackabe SWAG. It's about the same.

[+Renegade Knight]

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Edit: I resisted typing this and then came back.

I keep thinking how leatherman tools are banned because children might accidentally hurt themselves. Should be ban books in caches so that children don't accidentally learn anything?

You are worse than I am! But now that you mention it I've come across some rather interesting books. The kind you find with that stash of porn hidden in the park.

 

Taking this to it's logical extreme it would just be easier to dump all the individual rules "No knives, no porn, No booze, no banned books, no romances (they can be graphic) etc. and replaced it with one rule. "Meet community standards for kids". Less rules same result and just as hard to enforce as the original kludge rules. If nothing else we do save cyber ink on the rules page. It lets you better focus on all the other rules.

[+PDOP's]

Here in my neck of the woods we have a cache that is a library.

That is you leave a book and take a book.

I havent been to it yet but is on the list to do.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...30-b25031b8abf9

I placed a similar cache Book Bin in Canada and filled it with BookCrossing tagged books. I read a lot and have used plenty of pocket books as cache prizes in the past.