Have Book Will Travel!

Just like the “…coursers of a page of prancing poetry…”can bring us into the mind of a great poet like Emily Dickinson, the books on your shelves can transform a life in ways that you have probably not yet imagined!

First, let's take a familiar journey:

A hand pulls a book down from a shelf and brings the book into the world as if the authors’ words were being birthed over and over again into new hands and new minds!

The book could be coming from the library, or perhaps the book is carefully selected from any of the popular Barnes and Nobles stores.

Or~~~

The book travels to your home after you purchase it online.

But the transformational journey of a book being like a “frigate,” only begins there! Once you have read those books, don’t let the adventure stop there.

For instance, imagine that your books ARE your shelf----as in the creative useable art made from an artist who makes book shelves from books: http://www.thisintothat.com

And, in the mode of recyclables, did you know that you can send your books across the world? If you want to purchase a book to give away, or give books away that you presently own, just check out the neat global program found in Marin County where many happy readers have been provided with books who might not otherwise have had the means to acquire one:

http://www.bookexchange.marin.org/

Likewise, if you are saving to buy that great classic, and you crave to read about a journey down the Mississippi River, or would like to get into the mind of a solitary man in Concord, or would like to journey on the high seas, but don’t yet have the money to purchase the actual novel adventure in your hands, check out the popular books available for downloading at http://www.archive.org

Here is a sampling of some great American classics that you can access electronically at that site:

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The Wonderful World of Oz by Frank L. Baum

The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

And, finally, if you are feeling really adventurous with a book that you have recently purchased and read, and you would like to share the same book with others, take your book on a journey that you can track by leaving your book to be found by a stranger through the following URL:

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