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Step One: Read a book. Step Two: Log on to the Web site (www.bookcrossing.com) and get a screen name and a number that will be used to track your book. Place the number as well as the Web site address inside the book so that someone can contact you, via the Web site, once they’ve found your particular book.
Now the fun part: releasing. “It’s like reverse 1)shoplifting,” said 2)Ron Hornbaker, the founder of the Web site, “You have to be 3)sneaky because if a store manager or an employee sees you, they’re likely to run up to you shouting, ‘Hey, you forgot your book.’” You can “release” your book in a place that’s convenient—a park bench, a table at the local Starbucks—or place it more 4)artfully: diet books in ice cream 5)freezers, 6)Fast Food Nation at McDonald’s and, as one 7)crosser did, books by 8)Carl Sagan at the local 9)Baptist church. Jeanne Lubben, 43, a 10)veteran bookcrosser from Oakland, said she read about a woman who left11)Lucy Grealy’s Autobiography of a Face outside a plastic surgery clinic in Hawaii.
Finally, Step Four and the dream of every bookcrosser: to have the book “caught”; that is, found by someone who has logged onto the Web site, written comments about the book and then gone on to release the book to someone else.
“It’s the electronic equivalent of the little boy putting a note in a bottle,” said Jaeger37, the screen name of a successful bookcrosser from Livingston. Bibi Pasternack of Montclair agrees. “I think the idea of finding a free book where you least expect it is totally charming,” Ms. Pasternack said. “Imagine the delight of someone who found Who Moved My Cheese? in the 12)King’s 13)deli department?”
The highlight, of course, is seeing how far your book has travelled. A single copy of 14)Nick Hornby’s About a Boy moved from La Jolla, Calif., to Munich (the bookcrosser 15)playfully left it in front of a theater where the film version was showing), and then on to a restaurant in a fishing village in northern 16)Crete—all between Aug. 30th and Oct. 22nd, when it was found by a visitor from England who promised to continue it on its journey.
Closer to home, Thomas Mailloux, 53, who has released and caught more books than any other brookcrosser in 17)New Jersey (726 and 23 respectively), freed his copy of 18)The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at the 19)Wawa in Browns Mills on June 30th—“on top of trash can to right of entrance [20)sic],” he wrote in the book’s ongoing journal. Later that day, a second notation appeared: “I found this book sitting at Wawa. I remember this book when I was a kid and could not understand why someone would throw it away. Then I looked inside and thought COOL idea. This book will be dropped where someone will find it near next job I have [sic].” Signed RedrowPlumbing. Finally, on July 28th: “I’ll be taking this book back with me to Chile.” Signed Cota, Philadelphia.
Mr. Mailloux said he became involved in bookcrossing for several reasons. “I’ve found many treasures inside and I’ve learned I don’t need to keep the book to keep that treasure,” he said. “Maybe my released books will encourage others who do not normally read to give it a try.” A week before he first learned about the Web site through an article, his mother died. “Besides liking the idea of bookcrossing,” he said, “it gave me a project to occupy my mind instead of simply giving in to grief.”
Unfortunately, only about 10 percent of all books released into the wild result in captures by readers who continue the process. For this and other reasons, Jaeger37 of Livingston says he’s recently begun releasing in New York City. “In New Jersey, I think people just 21)zip around in their 22)SUV’s and never really see things up close, like a free book lying on a park bench,” he said.
23)Undaunted, Claire131 of Maplewood notes that she’ll be releasing a book within minutes of the publication of this column. For those who are interested, stop by the 24)pay phone on Highland Place in Maplewood. The Complete Illustrated Stories of the Brothers Grimm awaits you.
第一步：读一本书。第二步：登录网站（www.bookcrossing.com），获取一个用户名和一个编号，以便用来追踪你的图书去向。将该编号以及网址附在图书里，这样一旦有人发现了你这本书之后，他就能够通过该网站与你取得联系。
接下来的这部分就比较有意思了：放漂。“做法跟在商店里行窃刚好相反，”网站的创始人罗恩·霍恩贝克说，“你必须要‘偷偷摸摸’地去做，因为如果某个商店经理或职员发现了你，他们很可能会边跑边向你叫道：‘嘿，你忘了拿你的书。’”你可以把你的图书“放漂”在某个方便顺手的地方——某张公园长凳上，本地星巴克咖啡厅的某张桌子 上——或是某个颇为巧妙的地方：把关于饮食的书籍放在雪糕冰柜旁，把《快餐帝国》一书放在麦当劳里，还有，就像一位放漂者那样，把美国太空总署科学家卡尔·萨根的著作放在当地的浸礼会教堂里。珍妮·鲁本，现年43岁，是美国加州奥克兰市一位经验丰富的图书放漂者，她说她曾经读到过这样的故事—— 一位女士把露西·格里利的《脸的自传》留在了夏威夷一家整形外科诊所的门外。
最后，第四步，也是每个图书放漂者的梦想：让人“拾获”那本书；也就是说，被某个人发现以后，他也登陆这个网站，写下关于这本书的评论，然后继续在某个地方将这本书放漂。
“这就相当于是小男孩将纸条塞进漂流瓶的电子版，”来自新泽西州利文斯通，用户名为Jaeger37的一位成功的图书放漂者说道。来自新泽西州蒙特克莱尔的比比·帕斯特纳克也同意这个说法。“我认为，这个让人在最意想不到的地方发现了一本免费图书的主意真是棒极了，”帕斯特纳克女士说道，“想象一下，要是某个人在金库伦百货商店的熟食部里发现了《谁动了我的奶酪？》这本书，他该有多么开心啊！”
最精彩的部分，当然了，就是看看你的图书“漂流”了多远。有一本尼克·霍恩比的《关于一个男孩》从加利福尼亚州的拉霍亚市“漂”到了德国慕尼黑（这个图书放漂者开玩笑地将它留在了一家电影院的门口，电影院里当时正在播放改编自此书的电影），接着又去到了克里特岛北部渔村的一家餐厅里——“漂流”时间是从8月30日至10月22日，之后它被一位来自英格兰的游客发现了，他承诺说将会让它继续它的旅程。
回到美国国内，53岁的托马斯·马尤“放漂”和“拾获”的书籍比新泽西州的任何一个图书放漂者都要多（分别是726本和23本）。他于6月30日在新泽西州布朗斯米尔斯的Wawa便利店放漂了他的一本《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》——“在大门右边的垃圾桶上面，”他在这本书的那篇仍在不断加长的漂流日志上写道。那天晚些时候，第二条记录出现了：“我在Wawa便利店发现了这本书。我记得在小时候读过这本书，却不明白为什么有人会把它扔掉。然后我翻看了一下，觉得这个主意太‘酷’了。我会让这本书继续漂流，某个人会在我下一份工作的地点附近发现它。”签名是RedrowPlumbing。最后，在7月28日有一条记录出现：“我将会带着这本书和我一起回智利去。”签名是来自费城的Cota。
马尤先生说，他之所以会加入图书漂流这个活动是因为以下几个原因。“我已经从书里面获得了许多宝贵的知识，而我也认识到，我并不需要把书留住才算是把里面的宝藏守住，”他说，“也许我所放漂的书籍将会鼓励其他并不经常读书的人去试着读读。”在他从一篇文章里第一次了解到这个网站的一周之前，他的母亲去世了。“除了喜欢图书漂流这个主意之外，”他说，“还让我有了一个计划作为精神寄托，而不至于纵情悲伤。”
不幸的是，在所有被放漂于外并被读者得到的书籍里，只有百分之十的书籍能够继续这一过程。由于这个以及其他原因，来自利文斯通的图书放漂者Jaeger37说，他最近开始在纽约市放漂书籍了。“在新泽西州，我觉得人们只会开着他们的跑车呼啸而过，从不会真正地去近观身边的事物，比如说一本躺在公园长椅上的免费书籍，”他说。
而来自新泽西州梅普尔伍德，用户名为Claire131的参与者则毫不气馁地记录说，她将会在这篇专栏文章发表后的几分钟内放漂一本书。那些对此感兴趣的人，可以顺道去梅普尔伍德市高地广场的付费公用电话亭看看。一本《格林童话插图全集》等待着你的到来。
Now the fun part: releasing. “It’s like reverse 1)shoplifting,” said 2)Ron Hornbaker, the founder of the Web site, “You have to be 3)sneaky because if a store manager or an employee sees you, they’re likely to run up to you shouting, ‘Hey, you forgot your book.’” You can “release” your book in a place that’s convenient—a park bench, a table at the local Starbucks—or place it more 4)artfully: diet books in ice cream 5)freezers, 6)Fast Food Nation at McDonald’s and, as one 7)crosser did, books by 8)Carl Sagan at the local 9)Baptist church. Jeanne Lubben, 43, a 10)veteran bookcrosser from Oakland, said she read about a woman who left11)Lucy Grealy’s Autobiography of a Face outside a plastic surgery clinic in Hawaii.
Finally, Step Four and the dream of every bookcrosser: to have the book “caught”; that is, found by someone who has logged onto the Web site, written comments about the book and then gone on to release the book to someone else.
“It’s the electronic equivalent of the little boy putting a note in a bottle,” said Jaeger37, the screen name of a successful bookcrosser from Livingston. Bibi Pasternack of Montclair agrees. “I think the idea of finding a free book where you least expect it is totally charming,” Ms. Pasternack said. “Imagine the delight of someone who found Who Moved My Cheese? in the 12)King’s 13)deli department?”
The highlight, of course, is seeing how far your book has travelled. A single copy of 14)Nick Hornby’s About a Boy moved from La Jolla, Calif., to Munich (the bookcrosser 15)playfully left it in front of a theater where the film version was showing), and then on to a restaurant in a fishing village in northern 16)Crete—all between Aug. 30th and Oct. 22nd, when it was found by a visitor from England who promised to continue it on its journey.
Closer to home, Thomas Mailloux, 53, who has released and caught more books than any other brookcrosser in 17)New Jersey (726 and 23 respectively), freed his copy of 18)The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at the 19)Wawa in Browns Mills on June 30th—“on top of trash can to right of entrance [20)sic],” he wrote in the book’s ongoing journal. Later that day, a second notation appeared: “I found this book sitting at Wawa. I remember this book when I was a kid and could not understand why someone would throw it away. Then I looked inside and thought COOL idea. This book will be dropped where someone will find it near next job I have [sic].” Signed RedrowPlumbing. Finally, on July 28th: “I’ll be taking this book back with me to Chile.” Signed Cota, Philadelphia.
Mr. Mailloux said he became involved in bookcrossing for several reasons. “I’ve found many treasures inside and I’ve learned I don’t need to keep the book to keep that treasure,” he said. “Maybe my released books will encourage others who do not normally read to give it a try.” A week before he first learned about the Web site through an article, his mother died. “Besides liking the idea of bookcrossing,” he said, “it gave me a project to occupy my mind instead of simply giving in to grief.”
Unfortunately, only about 10 percent of all books released into the wild result in captures by readers who continue the process. For this and other reasons, Jaeger37 of Livingston says he’s recently begun releasing in New York City. “In New Jersey, I think people just 21)zip around in their 22)SUV’s and never really see things up close, like a free book lying on a park bench,” he said.
23)Undaunted, Claire131 of Maplewood notes that she’ll be releasing a book within minutes of the publication of this column. For those who are interested, stop by the 24)pay phone on Highland Place in Maplewood. The Complete Illustrated Stories of the Brothers Grimm awaits you.
第一步：读一本书。第二步：登录网站（www.bookcrossing.com），获取一个用户名和一个编号，以便用来追踪你的图书去向。将该编号以及网址附在图书里，这样一旦有人发现了你这本书之后，他就能够通过该网站与你取得联系。
接下来的这部分就比较有意思了：放漂。“做法跟在商店里行窃刚好相反，”网站的创始人罗恩·霍恩贝克说，“你必须要‘偷偷摸摸’地去做，因为如果某个商店经理或职员发现了你，他们很可能会边跑边向你叫道：‘嘿，你忘了拿你的书。’”你可以把你的图书“放漂”在某个方便顺手的地方——某张公园长凳上，本地星巴克咖啡厅的某张桌子 上——或是某个颇为巧妙的地方：把关于饮食的书籍放在雪糕冰柜旁，把《快餐帝国》一书放在麦当劳里，还有，就像一位放漂者那样，把美国太空总署科学家卡尔·萨根的著作放在当地的浸礼会教堂里。珍妮·鲁本，现年43岁，是美国加州奥克兰市一位经验丰富的图书放漂者，她说她曾经读到过这样的故事—— 一位女士把露西·格里利的《脸的自传》留在了夏威夷一家整形外科诊所的门外。
最后，第四步，也是每个图书放漂者的梦想：让人“拾获”那本书；也就是说，被某个人发现以后，他也登陆这个网站，写下关于这本书的评论，然后继续在某个地方将这本书放漂。
“这就相当于是小男孩将纸条塞进漂流瓶的电子版，”来自新泽西州利文斯通，用户名为Jaeger37的一位成功的图书放漂者说道。来自新泽西州蒙特克莱尔的比比·帕斯特纳克也同意这个说法。“我认为，这个让人在最意想不到的地方发现了一本免费图书的主意真是棒极了，”帕斯特纳克女士说道，“想象一下，要是某个人在金库伦百货商店的熟食部里发现了《谁动了我的奶酪？》这本书，他该有多么开心啊！”
最精彩的部分，当然了，就是看看你的图书“漂流”了多远。有一本尼克·霍恩比的《关于一个男孩》从加利福尼亚州的拉霍亚市“漂”到了德国慕尼黑（这个图书放漂者开玩笑地将它留在了一家电影院的门口，电影院里当时正在播放改编自此书的电影），接着又去到了克里特岛北部渔村的一家餐厅里——“漂流”时间是从8月30日至10月22日，之后它被一位来自英格兰的游客发现了，他承诺说将会让它继续它的旅程。
回到美国国内，53岁的托马斯·马尤“放漂”和“拾获”的书籍比新泽西州的任何一个图书放漂者都要多（分别是726本和23本）。他于6月30日在新泽西州布朗斯米尔斯的Wawa便利店放漂了他的一本《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》——“在大门右边的垃圾桶上面，”他在这本书的那篇仍在不断加长的漂流日志上写道。那天晚些时候，第二条记录出现了：“我在Wawa便利店发现了这本书。我记得在小时候读过这本书，却不明白为什么有人会把它扔掉。然后我翻看了一下，觉得这个主意太‘酷’了。我会让这本书继续漂流，某个人会在我下一份工作的地点附近发现它。”签名是RedrowPlumbing。最后，在7月28日有一条记录出现：“我将会带着这本书和我一起回智利去。”签名是来自费城的Cota。
马尤先生说，他之所以会加入图书漂流这个活动是因为以下几个原因。“我已经从书里面获得了许多宝贵的知识，而我也认识到，我并不需要把书留住才算是把里面的宝藏守住，”他说，“也许我所放漂的书籍将会鼓励其他并不经常读书的人去试着读读。”在他从一篇文章里第一次了解到这个网站的一周之前，他的母亲去世了。“除了喜欢图书漂流这个主意之外，”他说，“还让我有了一个计划作为精神寄托，而不至于纵情悲伤。”
不幸的是，在所有被放漂于外并被读者得到的书籍里，只有百分之十的书籍能够继续这一过程。由于这个以及其他原因，来自利文斯通的图书放漂者Jaeger37说，他最近开始在纽约市放漂书籍了。“在新泽西州，我觉得人们只会开着他们的跑车呼啸而过，从不会真正地去近观身边的事物，比如说一本躺在公园长椅上的免费书籍，”他说。
而来自新泽西州梅普尔伍德，用户名为Claire131的参与者则毫不气馁地记录说，她将会在这篇专栏文章发表后的几分钟内放漂一本书。那些对此感兴趣的人，可以顺道去梅普尔伍德市高地广场的付费公用电话亭看看。一本《格林童话插图全集》等待着你的到来。