4th Annual BookCrossing-LibraryThing Meet-Up - September 26, 2009
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1SqueakyChu
at the National Book Festival, National Mall, Washington, DC (accessible by Metro)
September 26, 2009
Meet-Up: 2:00pm
FREE Festival: 10a-5:30p
We'll meet once again this year for an informal get-together at the base of the steps (far right facing the building) of the Museum of Natural History (the domed building) from 2 to 3pm.
Wear an identifying shirt or name tag with your screen name.
Crrcookie of Bookcrossing will be back again this year with her yellow wagon - giving away hundreds of FREE books.
Please join us if you are a member of Bookcrossing OR LibraryThing OR if you are interested in learning about either or both!
See all of you "online people" there in person!
More information here and here.
P.S. If you've never attended before, you're in for a real treat!!
September 26, 2009
Meet-Up: 2:00pm
FREE Festival: 10a-5:30p
We'll meet once again this year for an informal get-together at the base of the steps (far right facing the building) of the Museum of Natural History (the domed building) from 2 to 3pm.
Wear an identifying shirt or name tag with your screen name.
Crrcookie of Bookcrossing will be back again this year with her yellow wagon - giving away hundreds of FREE books.
Please join us if you are a member of Bookcrossing OR LibraryThing OR if you are interested in learning about either or both!
See all of you "online people" there in person!
More information here and here.
P.S. If you've never attended before, you're in for a real treat!!
2GoofyOcean110
Squeaky, I'm going to try to make it by 2.
3GoofyOcean110
Well, I got there around 2:30, but didn't see anything - Didn't see any yellow wagon around... oh well.
Silly rain.
Silly rain.
4SqueakyChu
We were there from about 1:30p, but when it started to rain, about 2:15, we all took off for the covered tent to stay dry, taking the wagon with us. Could we catch you next year?
There were only two other LTers (gilroy and his girlfriend - please tell me her screen name again, gilroy) beside myself plus five other Bookcrossers.
Don't LTers ever mingle?! Three members (four, counting bfertig) there for a website with over 800,000 members! I know that not half of them live in the DC area...
Who did you see at the festival today? I only saw Tim O'Brien (whose reading bought me to tears) because I was mostly just hanging out with another BookCrosser giving away free books.
The weather sucked. It rained continuously from 2:15 through the rest of the day. The place was packed. The tents this year were twice the size they were last year and still there was standing room only all day. The guesstimate I read on Twitter for crowd size was 130,000 people!
I loved being there today. Hope more of you can join us next year.
There were only two other LTers (gilroy and his girlfriend - please tell me her screen name again, gilroy) beside myself plus five other Bookcrossers.
Don't LTers ever mingle?! Three members (four, counting bfertig) there for a website with over 800,000 members! I know that not half of them live in the DC area...
Who did you see at the festival today? I only saw Tim O'Brien (whose reading bought me to tears) because I was mostly just hanging out with another BookCrosser giving away free books.
The weather sucked. It rained continuously from 2:15 through the rest of the day. The place was packed. The tents this year were twice the size they were last year and still there was standing room only all day. The guesstimate I read on Twitter for crowd size was 130,000 people!
I loved being there today. Hope more of you can join us next year.
5drneutron
I'm so ashamed. Since it's been threatening rain, we decided to go to the Baltimore Book Festival instead, since it's closer to home and we could more easily drive there...Being ashamed didn't manage to keep us from buying a bunch o' books, though! 8^}
6GoofyOcean110
Oh well. I figured something like that happened. Its fine. we'll see what happens next year.
It was drizzly, and packed, we couldn't even really get into the tents, which were standing room only out into the rain. Heard a little bit of Meacham, but that was really about as close as I could get without going bonkers.
We hunkered down in the Darwin and Ocean exhibits in the Natural History Museum instead. The Darwin one is pretty good, I'd recommend seeing it while its around. I wound up getting a copy of Sex, Death, and Oysters, which I found in the shop there.
I had thought there was going to be more used books and book swaps, at the festival but was disappointed to find it was kinda corporate and mainly expensive Borders copies.
We wound up at the Baltimore one on Friday evening, and thought that was pretty cool - smaller tents, more face-to-face, etc.
It was drizzly, and packed, we couldn't even really get into the tents, which were standing room only out into the rain. Heard a little bit of Meacham, but that was really about as close as I could get without going bonkers.
We hunkered down in the Darwin and Ocean exhibits in the Natural History Museum instead. The Darwin one is pretty good, I'd recommend seeing it while its around. I wound up getting a copy of Sex, Death, and Oysters, which I found in the shop there.
I had thought there was going to be more used books and book swaps, at the festival but was disappointed to find it was kinda corporate and mainly expensive Borders copies.
We wound up at the Baltimore one on Friday evening, and thought that was pretty cool - smaller tents, more face-to-face, etc.
7gilroy
Tanneitha and I got to see John Grisham. I looked at the rest of the group and decided to go museum hopping for much of the rest of the day.
Rain sucked. though I do believe the numbers over 100,000. Standing room only even at 10 AM!
8WildMaggie
Love the idea of a meet up but an all-day event on Saturday is very problematic with other obligations. My daughter and I have a standing obligations every Saturday right at 2:00, in fact. So, pretty much a totel schedule conflict with yesterday's meet up. (Not a complaint to meetup schedulers, just saying how it is.)
If the Baltimore festival is more accessible, maybe a meet up there some time? Maybe easier for Eastern Shore members? DC or Baltimore are a toss up for me, travel wise.
And honestly, about the National Book thing, what with standing room only and the warnings I've heard about waiting a couple of hours to get one book signed, it not terribly encouraging. If the goal is a simple meetup, maybe something lower keyed like the regional Green Dragon meetups would work better for more people. Not that I've managed to get to those, but maybe something to explore.
If the Baltimore festival is more accessible, maybe a meet up there some time? Maybe easier for Eastern Shore members? DC or Baltimore are a toss up for me, travel wise.
And honestly, about the National Book thing, what with standing room only and the warnings I've heard about waiting a couple of hours to get one book signed, it not terribly encouraging. If the goal is a simple meetup, maybe something lower keyed like the regional Green Dragon meetups would work better for more people. Not that I've managed to get to those, but maybe something to explore.
