Bookshare
Have you ever seen that cheesy movie ‘Pay It Forward’? No? Well, let me give you a rundown. Hayley Joel Osment (who went on to play the ‘I see dead people’ kid in the Sixth Sense) plays a young boy who is given an assignment by his teacher to come up with an idea that will ‘improve mankind’. As trite as that sounds I can’t help coming back to that idea when i’m trying to describe what I want people to get out of the Bookshare Project.
Taking inspiration from other initiative I had read about online such as Book Crossing and Pass-the-Book I wanted to come up with a way of sharing the books I have read and enjoyed with other people. Although passing a book on to a friend after reading it is a great way to share, the journey of the book is necessarily limited by the size of your circle of friends.
From the beginning of June I will be leaving a number of books I have read in various locations around Melbourne with instructions in the front cover directing people to email me for further instructions. The finder of a book will be asked to;
- Read the book
- Respond to the book in any way they like. This response will be published on this website for others to see
- Leave the book somewhere for the next person to find
In this way I hope that people will be able not only to enjoy the book but they will be able to follow the book’s journey through the hands of numerous other readers.
Initially I will only be ‘releasing’ books of my own but if anyone would like to donate books for me to ‘release’ please email me jude at lipservicelibrarian dot com
