Bookcrossing

Friday, November 07, 2008

1001-Library

As many people are trying to read the books from the1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, so some helpful bookcrossers set up this library. The idea is that members of the library "take out a book" by asking the previous reader to send it to them, when they are finished reading, they "return" it to the library until someone else wants the book. To join the library, you need to donate a book, then you can ask to borrow others. Check out the Library's page - 1001-library. I have donated a few books, and taken a few out. There are some duplicate copies of books, but this is not a bad idea as it means that postage costs can be kept down.

The following books are in my possession at the moment:
In Portugal:
The Pit and the Pendulum (penguin 60s S.)
Atonement
The God of Small Things
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (King Penguin)

In the U.K.
Heart of Darkness
Bonjour Tristesse
Jane Eyre (English Library)
The Woodlanders
David Copperfield (Wordsworth Classics)
Empire of the Sun
The Heart of the Matter (Essential Penguin)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A Passage to India
Regeneration (Penguin Celebrations)
Slaughterhouse-Five
Howards End (Twentieth Century Classics)

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2 Comments:

  • You might be interested in heading over to Arukiyomi's blog and picking up a copy of the new version of Arukiyomi's 1001 books spreadsheet .

    Along with calculating how many books you need to read a year before you die, there's all the 2008 edition books, all those removed from the 2006 edition, links to wikipedia , amazon.com and .co.uk and Google books.

    Happy reading!

    By Blogger Arukiyomi - the spreadsheet guy, at 8:42 AM  

  • thanks, will check it out!

    By Blogger soffitta1, at 2:53 PM  

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