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Originally Posted by SLMines
... took a paperback book instead. Bad idea: between the flight, the airport, and waiting in ride lines I had enough time to finish my book, and start to re-read it.  I did spend a lot of time people-watching, but some lines were 40 to 80 minutes in length. |
Ummm... for me it's not an either/or proposition. I would have carried both my reader and a paperback book. (Paperback would have a
BookCrossing label in it, too.) Read on the device on the plane (except during take-off and landing) and in the hotel. Take the paperback to the park to read in the lines and plan on "releasing" it when I finish reading it. If I lost the book before I finished it, I'd just chalk it up as an inadvertent "release".
BookCrossing advocates "register", "read", and "release" whereby a given copy of a book is assigned a unique serial number and then is circulated to other readers who record the book's journeys at the website.