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# www.bookcrossing.com

What is so special about a BookCrossed book? We're sure many folks could wax poetic on this, but we'd like to offer our thoughts. A BookCrossed book is an individual. It has a unique identity. Like a fingerprint and a snowflake, a BookCrossed book has a personality and history it shares with no one else. There may be others similar, but each BookCrossing book is a oner. One-of-a-kind. Unique. Singular.

Unlike the masses of unlabelled, unregistered books that lack the passport to travel, a book with a BCID has the ability to live a rich and full life. There are countless books on shelves across the world with a BCIDentity crisis. Who are these lost and lonely books? What is their purpose? Where have they been? Where are they going? And when they look back at the years gone by, the glaring question remains, "What have they done with their lives?" No one knows.

Here is BookCrossing’s version of a well-known life mantra many of you may have read:

A book’s life should NOT be a solo journey to the shelf with the intention of sitting clean and safe, only to be eventually stuffed in a box at an estate sale, attractive, cover intact and well-preserved, but rather to skid in sideways, corners tattered, coffee-stained and weathered with its BCID to tell the world, "WOO HOO! What a ride!"

BookCrossing strives to give an identity and future to the countless books that want to be free to tell their story. To the lost, the lonely, and the unlabelled, a BCID awaits their destiny, but they can’t do it alone. They need you, the BookCrosser, to labell, love, and liberate them.

Grab the books from your shelf. Give them a fighting chance at living, at adventure. Rescue them and let them travel the world. Make them immortal. Make them BookCrossing books.

Bruce Pedersen
BookCrossing Co-founder/CEO