Chinese name
Book crossing
Starting point time
In the sixties and seventies.
origin
Europe
purpose
Enjoy books
quick
navigate by water/air
Up to now, the popularity of the Internet, the development of mobile Internet in China, and the biggest book drifting and spreading situation need to popularize the professional terms involved.
origin
Book drifting originated in Europe in the 1960s, which means that book lovers put special labels on books that they no longer read, and put them on public places, such as benches in parks, and provide them to people who come to pick them up for free. After reading it, the book picker will put the book in the public environment in the same way as the label prompts. The emergence of the Internet has accelerated the popularization of book drifting activities. In April of 200 1 year, in a small village near Kansas City, USA, Ron Hornbaker opened a book drifting network. Since then, book drifting activities have developed rapidly. Although less than four years, it has spread to Europe and America.
Development to date
The way books drift is no longer limited to being placed outdoors. More and more imaginative book lovers set their own drifting rules in the drifting instructions when throwing books, which makes the drifting process of books more colorful. For example, a friend of a book club gave him a book on his birthday. After reading it, he had an idea that this book should be circulated in every book club that happens to have a birthday. This book will no longer be placed directly in public places, but will be delivered to book lovers who are about to celebrate their birthdays at the right time.
In order to let every book sender know the drifting information of a book, the person who gets the book needs to do his duty and search for the book with the unique identification number "drifting number" on the book drifting website.
Due to language differences and other problems, book drifting activities have little influence in Chinese. In order to let more people in China participate in this meaningful activity, we set up this website, aiming at strengthening the communication among book lovers in a wider scope and promoting the knowledge exchange among us in China.
Internet popularization
The emergence of the Internet has accelerated the popularization of book drifting activities. In April, 200 1 year, in a small village near Kansas city, Ron Hornbaker opened a book drifting website. Since then, book drifting activities have developed rapidly. Although less than four years, it has spread to Europe and America. There are more than 465,438+00,000 registered members in the world, and more than 2.4 million books are registered. Hornbeck, the founder of the website, proudly said: "The passion of the' Book Drifting' group always inspires my soul."
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On May 3rd, 2005, the 9th Weibi Prize was announced. The book Drifting Network, which originated in the United States, won the People's Voice Award in the categories of "community" and "society/network". The Webby Award is an award sponsored by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences to select the best websites in the world. Known as the Oscar in the Internet field.
mobile Internet
With the popularity of mobile Internet, book drifting is more convenient and fast, anytime and anywhere. At the same time, it also produced a new generation of book drift. August 20 16, Le Kai Bookstore officially launched a more convenient way of book drifting, called Le Kai drifting. Users no longer need to apply for book rafting. The system will ensure that the more books you send, the more books you receive. Everyone can mark the books they want to read in the system, so that they can receive the good books they want to read, which has a certain sense of surprise and ensures the sustainability of book rafting, and has been sought after by readers.
Development of China
summary
China's "Book Drifting Network" originated when the founders laow and jane first found drifting books in front of the Lions Monument in Lucerne when they were traveling in Switzerland, so China had a book drifting website. The website has more than 4,000 registered book lovers and more than 400 kinds of books, and has two "book drifting" stations in Beijing and Urumqi.
Book crossing
As early as 2004, Feng Chun Literature and Art Publishing House published Shi Zhongshan's The Devil Comes, Revolution, Hongfeng Revolution and Yan Lianke's Alive.
in Beijing
Book drift makes reading no longer lonely. Thousands of book lovers have read 800 books.
When a person finishes reading a book, he immediately hands it to the next reader, and so on, forming a "book drift". The latest issue of the "Feimang Reading Club" WeChat group recently released a message, and the book "There is a blizzard tonight" by writer Liang began to fall. Over the past year, through this WeChat group, book drifting has been held for 40 times, with at least thousands of people participating and reading as many as 800 books. This book drifting activity itself is like reading performance art, and Wan Xingming, the founder of Feimang Study Room, is the initiator of the activity. "I want to let more people know paper books again in this way, and influence more people around me to pick up books and read them." [ 1]
rule
Finish reading a book in a week.
Thousands of readers scattered all over the country get together to talk about philosophy, psychology and literature. The average daily conversation volume of WeChat group is thousands. Facing people who love reading, Wan Xingming found a strange phenomenon. "If you like reading Sanmao very much, but there are often people around you who like the same works, many times you will appear very lonely." He believes that a person is always doing lonely things and will lack the motivation to persist for a long time. He also found that many people belonged to Ye Gong Haolong and bought many books, but they didn't really read them because they had no motivation. [ 1]
For those who study alone and lack reading motivation, if someone pushes them from behind, the situation will be very different. Wan Xingming thought, why not try Book Drift? He and his friends acted as the promoters of readers and formulated a "overbearing rule": books were provided free of charge by publishing houses, and those who participated in book drifting first signed up through WeChat. After receiving the book, they must finish reading it within one week and write down their thoughts with a pen. The books and feelings after reading will float to the next book friend by express delivery, and the courier fee will be borne by the book friend himself. [ 1]
Wan Xingming was worried that the drifting plan would be ignored at first, but the first book "Life and Asset Management of China People" attracted twenty or thirty people to sign up. "If a person reads a book for a week, it will take a year to finish reading a book. Finally, we adopted a grouping method and divided it into four or five groups to circulate a book. " He said that the book floated back in less than two months. [ 1]
Book club
Encourage each other to read more than a dozen books for half a year.
Many readers from all over the country have participated in book drifting, and the drifting route of each book is almost from north to south. "Many people are addicted, and many people participate in each issue. I often wonder how they can read so fast. " Song, a staff member of Feimang study room, said. [ 1]
Li Chen, from Hefei, Anhui Province, just experienced a snowstorm tonight. She works in a university for the aged and sees some memories of old people, all of which are about her educated youth. She wanted to know more about their stories, so she took part in the latest book drifting activity.
Deng from Beijing is an office worker. Every time she gets a drifting book, she can't wait to read it. Every day before going to bed and every weekend, it is the prime time for her to study. She even picked up a pen and wrote down her thoughts for the first time. When watching The Little Prince, she also bought crayons and drew a rose like a child. "I like this quiet and clean state. Many times we are too busy and lose this feeling. "
Everyone says drifting stimulates reading. In less than a year, Li Chen read more than a dozen books, such as The Cliff Report: The Fission Report of Native China, The Game in the Micro-world, and The Picture of Takehisa Miki, all of which are drifting books. Sun Fangfang, a reader in Lanzhou, said that he couldn't read a book in the past month, but now he has read more than a dozen books in half a year. Fang Zhi, from Yueyang, Hunan, said that he used to like reading, but when he was busy, he couldn't stick to it. After joining the book float circle, everyone encouraged each other. Now, on a quiet night, he will pick up the book.