On a recent week night, Craig Lira left his job in the medical center, stopped at the Yale Street Coffee House in the Heights, sipped some green tea and left two books, William Golding's Lord of the ...

The people running BookCrossing.com have a few things to celebrate. In June the Web site for the Sandpoint- and Kansas City-based operation won two Webby awards, something like Oscars for online ...

When we first visited BookCrossing.com two years ago, the fledgling online community had 3,400 registered members and a driving force, Ron Hornbaker, who saw the site as a pleasant diversion that ...

I have always loved the idea of leaving a message in a bottle,but recently I stumbled across something even better. “BookCrossing is a cross between a treasure hunt and a messagein a bottle,” said ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

The global phenomenon that is BookCrossing is "the act of releasing books into the wild and then following their journeys and… The global phenomenon that is BookCrossing is "the act of releasing books ...

This free online bookclub with over 275,000 members practises the Three Rs: read (the book), register (your comments online) and release (the book into the wild for someone else to find).