{"id":16231,"date":"2014-09-19T18:37:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T18:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eco123.info\/?p=16231"},"modified":"2015-01-03T13:14:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T13:14:38","slug":"a-library-on-every-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eco123.info\/en\/highlight\/a-library-on-every-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"A library on every corner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookcrossingGenerally, sharing is an instantaneous act of contact and when not physical then at least virtual. To this end, \u2018\u2018BookCrossing\u2019\u2019 takes on the characteristics of both sharing and of playing. In reality, this is a form of sharing but it does also involve, to a large extent, the factor of surprise with this sensual component simultaneously recalling the universe of games. In sum, \u2018\u2018BookCrossing\u2019\u2019 in practice involves the act of leaving a book in a public place so that somebody else may pick it up, read it and then hand it back to the world again. Because this world is the place of ideas and books are no more than one of the\u00a0 best means we have available of materialising those ideas. In truth, this also to a certain extent constitutes the objective of those engaging in these practices: transforming the entire world into a library.<\/p>\n

Idealised by Ron Hornbaker(1), \u2018BookCrossing\u2019 swiftly spread from idea to a practice in effect on a global scale with countries such as Singapore considered as among the movement\u2019s hotspots. Finding books through \u2018BookCrossing\u2019 may as much be by mere chance in public locations such as caf\u00e9s, libraries, restaurants or public transport as well as in places previously defined for this purpose, themselves denominated \u2018crossing points\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Ron Hornbaker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, the books are not the only form of sharing provided by \u2018BookCrossing\u2019 given that its members frequently attend \u2018BookCrossing\u2019 forums and thus engage personally in speaking and discussing books in general or a particular book read by members of the same circle of readers. The reader circles constitute chains down which books are successively passed between various persons and that end in the exchange of opinions and experiences about the respective book and its themes.
\nIn Portugal, \u2018BookCrossing\u2019 was instantaneously taken up by various participants that give life to the Portuguese forum of this movement. Margarida Pires and Maria Nunes are two typical participants in \u2018BookCrossing\u2019 in Portugal. In a similar fashion, Ana Sarago\u00e7a signed up to this form of sharing books some eleven years ago and has since clocked up over 2,300 books received and released with everything suggesting this is set to last.<\/p>\n

This adhesion reflects in the statistics kept by \u2018BookCrossing\u2019 given that while only 3% of Portuguese residents participate, that still gets the country into the \u2018Top 10\u2019 of participants by percentage and ahead of Spain even while substantially behind the United States where 29% of people take part.
\nThe first Portuguese book sharing event dates back to the Lisbon of 20th November 2002 and with cities as diverse as Porto, Almada, Coimbra and Braga having since also hosted meetings.
\nIndeed, in Portugal, it is already difficult to find a city without some point for exchanging books. In Lisbon we have the bar-restaurant Agito in Bairro Alto while in the neighbouring council of Oeiras, any one of the three libraries has a box full of books for this type of sharing. In S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o da Madeira, we may find a \u2018BookCrossing\u2019 point in the bookstore Taccuino and the same is true of Quasiloja in Porto.
\nAs Miguel de Cervantes stated: \u201cWhoever reads a lot and walks a lot, will go far and know much.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/i>\n\t\t\t(1) www.bookcrossing.com\/management<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n
<\/i>\n\t\t\t\nwww.bookcrossing.com <\/a>
\nwww.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BookCrossing<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n
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About the author<\/h3>\n\t\t\tHugo Filipe Lopes:Has a degree in sociology and a post-graduate qualification in clinical nutrition from the Egas Moniz Faculty. Collaborates with a number of online publications, a trainer and nutritional therapist. Honourable mentions in the Casa da Imprensa and Lisboa \u00e0 Letra competitions..\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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