<story><title>On the pleasures of stumbling upon books in the wrong places</title><url>https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/10/17/happy-accidents/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KGIII</author><text>On one of my trips, I bought a number of copies of a few books and left them in random places as I drove, more or less randomly, around the country.&lt;p&gt;I put an email address in each one, along with a quick note. I got exactly one response.&lt;p&gt;I left copies of:&lt;p&gt;Ishmael;
Another Roadside Attraction; 
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintanence; 
Hitchhiker&amp;#x27;s Guide to the Galaxy; 
Battle Cry&lt;p&gt;(the formatting kinda sucks)&lt;p&gt;A dozen copies of each, except Ishmael which I bought the half dozen I found at a bookstore along the way and added those to my random seeding of books.&lt;p&gt;I hope they were placed in the right places and at the right times, but I only got one reply so maybe not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codeulike</author><text>Reminds me of &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bookcrossing.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bookcrossing.com&lt;/a&gt; which has been around for a while, lets you put an ID number in each book and then you can track it as others find it. I released a handful of books in NZ and London about 10 years ago via bookcrossing</text></comment>
<story><title>On the pleasures of stumbling upon books in the wrong places</title><url>https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/10/17/happy-accidents/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KGIII</author><text>On one of my trips, I bought a number of copies of a few books and left them in random places as I drove, more or less randomly, around the country.&lt;p&gt;I put an email address in each one, along with a quick note. I got exactly one response.&lt;p&gt;I left copies of:&lt;p&gt;Ishmael;
Another Roadside Attraction; 
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintanence; 
Hitchhiker&amp;#x27;s Guide to the Galaxy; 
Battle Cry&lt;p&gt;(the formatting kinda sucks)&lt;p&gt;A dozen copies of each, except Ishmael which I bought the half dozen I found at a bookstore along the way and added those to my random seeding of books.&lt;p&gt;I hope they were placed in the right places and at the right times, but I only got one reply so maybe not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icebraining</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s become a worldwide movement: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;BookCrossing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;BookCrossing&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>