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I had been sharing a lot of books through bookoxes. But… now that postage has been hiked up I think I’m going to have to cut that out. Anyway-It’s more fun to leave books in the wild and that’s free.

I started my very first book box last year and it was lost to the infamous tammysavala. (Here’s the journal http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4573523 and forum link http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/20/3957781)

In honor of Winslow and his book box I will be creating two new boxes. One box will go out to the people who signed up for the first one that was lost. I thought it might be fun to send out the second one to 43Things BCers. The box with contain books, a single use camera and a stuffed pig named “Dotty”.

Here are the “rules”

1. Dotty travels along with the book box and a disposable camera to each participant.

2. Each Bookcrosser to receive her book box must take two pictures of her having an adventure in an effort to complete one of their 43Things goals. When they write their release notes they will explain what Dotty was doing in each of her pictures.

3. After doing so the Bookcrosser sends her and her camera on to the next BCer along with at least as many books as there were in the box when she arrived.

4. Each BCer that receives the box must have a 43Things account and be actively trying to complete goals from it.

The “catch”

1. You must agree to pass the box along! After the incident with Winslow’s box my family is so sad and I don’t think we could take it if another “friend” was lost.

2. You must agree to pass the box along within a week and a half of receiving it.

I would like to have at most 10 people at a time. However, I think it would be fun to send her out to 43 BCers before she retires!

(PS-You will be able to follow her adventures on The Traveling Moose Blog here http://thepookiemoose.blogspot.com/2007/04/welcome-dotty.html )

I bought some shipping lables and printed them up. I think this will make it even easier for me to want to bookcross more books. It’ll be so much faster than the cut and paste I’ve been doing. I wish I could afford the fancy lables they sell at the BC store.

And what book received this honor?
1984
Which was the same novel I released for my 100th last New Year’s Eve!!

Happy New Year fellow BookCrossers!!!!!!

I have released 193-My goal is to release 200 before midnight New Year’s Eve.

I joined bookcrossing last July and to date I have registered 222 books and released 128. There is nothing like the rush of leaving a book for someone else to find. I love trading books with folks too.