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2GoofyOcean110
Hey MDLady, Welcome!
3SqueakyChu
Hi, MDLady!
Welcome to LT. I hope you find it as much fun as I do.
Should you ever want to meet other members of LT in person that live in the DC/MD/VA area, we have an informal meet-up each autumn at the National Book festival at the National Mall in Washington, DC. Next year will be the Third Annual LT Meet-up!
Here's the link to the National Book Festival group.
I'm not sure where Brooklyn Park is. I'm originally from Baltimore, and my 21-year-old daughter goes to school at UMBC. Is that anywhere near you?
Good to have you with us!
Welcome to LT. I hope you find it as much fun as I do.
Should you ever want to meet other members of LT in person that live in the DC/MD/VA area, we have an informal meet-up each autumn at the National Book festival at the National Mall in Washington, DC. Next year will be the Third Annual LT Meet-up!
Here's the link to the National Book Festival group.
I'm not sure where Brooklyn Park is. I'm originally from Baltimore, and my 21-year-old daughter goes to school at UMBC. Is that anywhere near you?
Good to have you with us!
4tarpfarmer
Hey there MDLady! I'm out here in Carroll County.
One of these days I am going to make it to the National Book Festival in DC :-) ...so close but yet so far to those of us out in the sticks!
LT is a wonder and I love it beyond all sense...
If you love books you WILL find kindred spirits here.
One of these days I am going to make it to the National Book Festival in DC :-) ...so close but yet so far to those of us out in the sticks!
LT is a wonder and I love it beyond all sense...
If you love books you WILL find kindred spirits here.
5SqueakyChu
You're in luck, tarpfarmer. A group of BookCrossers (me included) is coming to Carroll County next week.
We'll be manning the BookCrossing booth at the Random House Book Fair on Saturday, November, 10, 2007. Stop by our booth and pick up a free book! Your choice. The fair is free...and near you. I probably won't be there until about 10am, so look for me after that time as I'm coming from Montgomery County. My screen name on BookCrossing is also SqueakyChu.
Hope to see you (and perhaps others from LT) then.
P.S. If others are interested, we can plan an LT meet-up sometime that day. Just let me know if you'd like that.
We'll be manning the BookCrossing booth at the Random House Book Fair on Saturday, November, 10, 2007. Stop by our booth and pick up a free book! Your choice. The fair is free...and near you. I probably won't be there until about 10am, so look for me after that time as I'm coming from Montgomery County. My screen name on BookCrossing is also SqueakyChu.
Hope to see you (and perhaps others from LT) then.
P.S. If others are interested, we can plan an LT meet-up sometime that day. Just let me know if you'd like that.
6tarpfarmer
Of course that would be the one Saturday this month I will be out of town!
Of course...just my luck.
Our local public library just set up a Bookcrossing shelf not too long ago. There are never many books on it, I guess I really should share. I spend so much time on LT and PBS (plus schooling my kids, cooking, cleaning...you know stuff I HAVE to do) I just have not gotten around to adding it to my plate.
It used to be in a pretty prominent place at the library but now it is right next to MY favorite place...the book sale shelves :-) They have been doing some reorganizing and nothing stays in the same place for very long these days.
Thanks for the heads up about the book fair....if my plans change I will surely get to Westminster. If not I may send a representative :-)
Of course...just my luck.
Our local public library just set up a Bookcrossing shelf not too long ago. There are never many books on it, I guess I really should share. I spend so much time on LT and PBS (plus schooling my kids, cooking, cleaning...you know stuff I HAVE to do) I just have not gotten around to adding it to my plate.
It used to be in a pretty prominent place at the library but now it is right next to MY favorite place...the book sale shelves :-) They have been doing some reorganizing and nothing stays in the same place for very long these days.
Thanks for the heads up about the book fair....if my plans change I will surely get to Westminster. If not I may send a representative :-)
7SqueakyChu
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Sorry I won't get to meet you. Maybe another time.
It's interesting that your library has a sale shelf and a BookCrossing shelf. I wonder if my branch library would be amenable to a BookCrossing shelf. Wouldn't that take away from the sales, though?
Sorry I won't get to meet you. Maybe another time.
It's interesting that your library has a sale shelf and a BookCrossing shelf. I wonder if my branch library would be amenable to a BookCrossing shelf. Wouldn't that take away from the sales, though?
8tarpfarmer
>7 SqueakyChu: I hope so too...
The BookCrossing shelf couldn't possibly take away from sales. There is hardly ever anything on it :-( Now I'm starting to feel guilty!
Our library does a very brisk business from the sale shelves (around 8, not always full all the time). Prices are very cheap: $.25 paperbacks and $.50 hardcovers mostly library discards but also donations. At those prices I am always shopping for friends as well as myself and on bag sales at $3.00 per bag I can really clean up. I like to think of myself as one of their best customers :-)
I know the staff member that is in charge of both projects. I believe she seeded the bookcrossing shelf with 10 or 15 books to start but I only see 2 or 3 on it at any given time. If you are interested I could ask her what she thinks about the project vs sale shelves and pass on her thoughts.
The BookCrossing shelf couldn't possibly take away from sales. There is hardly ever anything on it :-( Now I'm starting to feel guilty!
Our library does a very brisk business from the sale shelves (around 8, not always full all the time). Prices are very cheap: $.25 paperbacks and $.50 hardcovers mostly library discards but also donations. At those prices I am always shopping for friends as well as myself and on bag sales at $3.00 per bag I can really clean up. I like to think of myself as one of their best customers :-)
I know the staff member that is in charge of both projects. I believe she seeded the bookcrossing shelf with 10 or 15 books to start but I only see 2 or 3 on it at any given time. If you are interested I could ask her what she thinks about the project vs sale shelves and pass on her thoughts.
9SqueakyChu
Sure. Ask her if she thinks that people take from the BookCrossing shelf instead of buying from the sale shelf.
I've slipped BookCrossing books into the sale shelf at my library but never thought about setting up an Official BookCrossing Zone within the library. I think it's too confusing to have books that you can buy, books you may borrow but must retun, and books that you can take for free and never have to return all in the same place!
I've slipped BookCrossing books into the sale shelf at my library but never thought about setting up an Official BookCrossing Zone within the library. I think it's too confusing to have books that you can buy, books you may borrow but must retun, and books that you can take for free and never have to return all in the same place!
