I love to read – you will rarely find me with out at least one book in my bag. This however poses a problem for prolonged travelling as I can’t bear not to have books to read – a bored Yli is not a pretty sight, but I like to keep them – have boxes and boxes of them in storage – the poor things – I’m sure they miss their sunny shelves in my spare room in Perth.
So to spare me many thousands of dollars in excess luggage I’ve come up with a 2 part solution – the first part is to buy cheap books to read. My local news agency is great for this they have stand with 3 books for $12.95 – cheaper than magazines or daily paper as a book will generally last me a week of commuting. And when I'm actually travelling well beggars can't be choosers.
The second part of the solution is to then release these books into the wild for others to enjoy.
If you’ve never heard of book releases this is were you leave (release) a book at a public place (the wild) for someone else to read, and if you register your book with Bookcrossing and leave it with a short note of explanation then you may even get to find out where you book travels to if the person goes to the website and adds to the books journal.
I’m doing my first book release today on my way home from work - will be interesting to see how far it will travel.
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or audio books on an iPod
only I don't have an ipod - setting them free is lots of fun especially when of them gets caught
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