[REVIEW] Programming Collective Intelligence

Billy Abbott billy at cowfish.org.uk
Fri Dec 7 17:03:07 GMT 2007


On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Dave Cross wrote:

> Quoting "Philippe Bruhat (BooK)" <philippe.bruhat at free.fr>:
>
>> Another option is called BookCrossing. I've never experienced it (I just
>> keep buying shelves), but I know some people who seem to like it.
>> 
>> http://www.bookcrossing.com/
>
> IIRC, Book Crossing avoids the postage issue by encouraging you to just leave 
> your book in a random public spot for anyone to pick up.
>
> Not sure how well programming books would do like that :-)

They also have some more specific BookCrossing locations - if enough 
people were interested in a techy book one then someone could negotiate a 
location with an accomodating party (the nice folk at the Pembury Tavern?)

--billy

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