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Kent Memorial Library Joins BookCrossing
Kent Memorial Library has joined BookCrossing.com—the Internet-based book-lovers' community.
What is BookCrossing, you ask? It's a global book club that crosses time and space. It's a reading group that knows no geographical boundaries. Do you like free books? Well, these books are left in the wild and are free … but it's the act of freeing books that points to the heart of BookCrossing and to Kent Memorial Library. Book trading has never been more exciting, more serendipitous. Our goal, simply, is to make the whole world a library. BookCrossing is a book exchange of infinite proportion, the first and only of its kind.
Kent Memorial Library has a selection of free paperback books (located near the card catalog in the main reference room of the library). Each free paperback book is labeled with a unique BCID (BookCrossing ID number) and is waiting for someone to come and "release it into the wild."
You never have to leave Kent Memorial Library empty-handed. Even if you are just passing through (along the Appalachian Trail), or visiting a friend or family, or just dropped into Kent for a little shopping, you can take with you a little bit of Kent—a book from one book-loving community to another.
Here is all we ask: take one of our books, read it, comment on it (via <BookCrossing.com> on the Internet) and then release it again into the wild for someone else to read (give it to a friend, leave it on a park bench, donate it to charity, "forget" it in a coffee shop, etc.). Kent Memorial Library will be notified by email each time someone comes across that book and records a journal entry at BookCrossing.com.
So, come the library and grab a book or two from our BookCrossing shelves. Read them, and then give them away or leave them where someone will find them. The library will post the far-off travels of our books set free.
Already our books have traveled to Brooklyn, NY, Stonington and Portland, ME, and Silver Springs, MD. Books for BookCrossing have been donated to the library by our local patrons as part of our paperback exchange. For more info call 860-927-3761, or visit Kent Memorial Library at 32 North Main St. in Kent on Monday through Friday from 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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