Trying to live up to my New Years Resolution, I wild released 30 books this morning.

Let's see if any JE's come in. I know there's a couple BXers here on campus.

Post your adventures in Wild Releasing here, especially when those JE's start flooding in. ;)

Haven't had any great success lately but in the past have had good success releasing at:

gas stations
children's books in the park
coffee places (like Starbuck's)

I'm up to 67 books journaled out of 406 books released.

I keep a book in my bag for releasing, and try to release one a week if I can (sometimes I forget). I leave books lots of places, sometimes where you don't think a book would be in a safe spot for releasing.

Some of my reoccuring catches have come from:

* books left in the window of a free paper box outside the "EL" station a few blocks away.
*Books left propped up in hallway the bathrooms are located in at a local eatery.
*books left propped up on the baby changing stations at the local movie theater
* Books left on the leave a book take a book shelf at a coffeehouse near the library branch close to me.
*Books left scattered around the Lincoln Park Zoo (a bunch of which were taken and put in staff break rooms until they got caught).

I have terrible luck with catches. I've got two wild release catches! I've only released 40 books. I'm determined to release more books this year. I appreciate any tips on where to release.

I just got my second one, though. I released it 3 and a half years ago! And she joined! Yay!

The Night Listener

WooHoo! Got one from my release last week.. and a good one too!

1st To Die


Hmmm.... might have to find this HCCLinda......

Congrats, LJ! Let's hope s/he becomes active in BC!

Had to share this brilliant JE I got from a release today

Bridget Jones' Diary

That is a fantastic JE!!!!

Ian, Harriet and I wild released a duffle bag full of books today:

http://pussreboots.livejournal.com/202560.html

:bananadance:

This isn't mine but I saw it on the sidebar & thought it was really neat.

http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4504718

I found a wild book today :bananadance:

Actually, I went hunting for it after I got the release alert, but this is the first wild one I've come across in 4 years, so was really chuffed!

The Flamboya Tree

Looks like a good book as well!

Ooo! Hooray for you! (And isn't it your birthday today, too?) :bananacheer: :bananacheer:

Ok I spoke too soon (patience, patience dancing-dog!)

I've had 3 catches since I last posted here & 2 of them were on the same day:

Come to Grief

Standoff

Black Rose

2 of these 3 were at gas stations!

Oh wow! This book was released over 3 years ago and has just resurfaced! :o


White

Dancing-Dog--

I love how your Standoff AF says, "i hope every one who reads it enjoys it as much as i do."... and then gives it four out of ten stars!! :P

LOL, I noticed that too!

Here's one that SandyDandy released at the Toronto Convention that has since traveled around the world and ended up in New Zealand.

http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2402551

This little guy has been caught several times...
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4687772

And another gas station release caught:

Gone for Good

This one was released for bethieb's 2007 Arthritis Walk You Can Make a Difference challenge!

Wow! I just got a journal entry on a book that I released in 2004! :bananadance:

Journal

That's the second finder for this book, too. :D

The link says there's no such BCID... :blink:

Change the --- in the bad URL to the word 'journal'. Here's the corrected URL:

Gone for Good

Oops sorry gang - thanks for correcting it Cherie!

:blush: (I seem to keep copying these from the wrong spot) And not only that!
I also referenced the wrong book .... DUH, dog, get a brain!

Here's the REALLY correct one! Gone For Good

*slinks off embarrassed*

Got a entry on a book I released a couple weeks ago at the vet's office.

The Conquest

One of my weekend-away releases got caught before I made it to the internet terminal to make release notes! As a result, I waited until I got home and edited the journal entry.

I hope this person likes it, but it's Shakespeare and the finder doesn't seem to speak that much English.... :unsure:

As You Like It--- caught in Montreal!

Have I understood the picture right? You left a book on top of a rubbish bin??!? Brave you! :lol:

I did, and you know, it is the only book from that trip that has been caught so far!





I have a wild release question-- do people count OBCZ/meet-ups as wild releases?

I do. Even if the other BCers don't take them, I leave them at the OBCZ for other people to pick up. Our local OBCZ and meet up place is a deli. If our books seem not to be movie, we try to refresh the shelf by taking older stuff and wild releasing it again.

Oh no... I lied! Well, not really, the statement just isn't true anymore-- another one from my Montreal trip got journalled! :D I like Montreal... people seem to pick up books there, lol

The Little Mermaid-- caught in Montreal!

Yes, mostly.

Books I leave at an OBCZ, yes, that's a wild release for me (and disappointingly few, by which I mean NONE so far, have been journalled). :angry2:

Books I take to a meet-up (er, Gathering, er, ABC) I register as wild releases if, like Casey said, I plan to leave it there if nobody takes it. I think it makes a nice incentive for people who live here to get the release notes in their email reminding them about the meeting.

Sometimes, though, I think, "If nobody takes this one, I'll bring it back home and put it in the VBB" (or something similar). In that case I don't call it a wild-release, and I don't make release notes for it.

I got 2 new catches this morning, but my finder(s) doesn't seem to like the books :(


The Wind in the Willows

Wee Willie Winkie

I got a j/e on the pee-pee book I released at a drive up ATM

The Crimson Spell


And she's a new BC'r now! :bananadance:

Second catch from one of my MTL books! And apparently it's made its way to NYC now... I hope it will get caught there too :)

The Little Mermaid-- Caught Again in MTL!

Congrats, Jessica

Kind of neat anon finder :)

http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4010776

Thanks, Ace!

Congrats, candie! That reminds me of the first book I found, because I had the same idea about it being a library book and returning it etc.

She's no longer anonymous! :bananadance:

They joined! They joined! I get way too excited about crap like this. Seriously.

Ooo - Careful there! :o We're the bookobsessors, after all! :lol:

One of the 32 books I set free in the world for world space week last October finally called home!

http://bookcrossing.com/journal/3950471

It's funny because I saw like 3 books get picked up (as they were set down on the chairs of various trains I was traveling on to get around the city that week) but no one has journaled any of them until now.

But this once again proves that sometimes it takes awhile for the book to check in. I have a feeling this might have ended up in the cafe's bookshelf for a short amount of time after I dropped it off in the entrance vestibule.