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Saturday, June 18
BookCrossing and Building Social Capital
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Sat 18 Jun 2005 02:24 PM EDT
What if a stranger left a free book for you in a public place
?
What if you could go online and see where else the book had been, and what its readers thought of it
?
What if
300,000 people all over the world
had already given away
2,000,000 books
to strangers?
These are not merely rhetorical questions...
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