It's a simple enough idea. Pass on the books you've read and track their path around the world. BookCrossing is a free book-spreading service set up in 2001, where people all over the world can pass on their books and pick up a new one. It's a place for books to fulfil their purpose - to be read. It's based on its owns 3 R's - Read, Register and Release. You can then sit back and see where your books go to - maybe they will travel the world and one day make it back to you! Get started! All you do is register the book on the BookCrossing website, which will give you a unique BCID (Book Crossing ID). This BCID is then entered by the people who pick it up and it'll let you see where it goes. You can leave and pick up books from various BookCrossing Zones, the BBC Cumbria Bus being a mobile one. Onboard there's a selection of books for you to take with you. Please feel free to bring in some of your own books as well for releasing into the literary ether. When you're on the BBC Cumbria Bus and you find a book you're dying to read, go on to the BookCrossing website and become a member. If you feel you might need some help with that, our Bus Tutors will be happy to help. Keep going! Once you're logged in, you make a journal entry to enter the book's BCID number. If you want to bring in some of your own books, to take them off the book shelf for a while, you have to register it on the BookCrossing website to give it BCID number and print out a label which goes with the book. It's now ready to be released! You can either leave the book at the BBC Cumbria bus, or any other suitable place where people will be able to pick them up. A cafe, on the train or the bus - anywhere where you are likely to "lose" a book. So, click along to the BookCrossing website to become a member and then next time you're on the BBC Cumbria Bus, make sure you leave with something to read so that you too can spread the word! Books in the wild... These books have been released on the bus so far. Why not add to the list? William Woodruff: The Road to Nab End: A Lancashire Childhood Patricia Cornwell: Body of Evidence (A Dr. Kay Scarpetta Mystery) Patricia Scanlan: Francesca's Party Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited If you can't hop onto the bus, there will also be a BookCrossing Zone in the reception at BBC Radio Cumbria on Annetwell Street. Why not pop round and see what books you might bring home? | 
