Letture - Lettura

Nella lezione di oggi parliamo di un interessante fenomeno che sta coinvolgendo i lettori in tutto il mondo.

Bookcrossing (scambio di libri) is the the name given to the practice of leaving (lasciare) a book in a public space (a bus stop, a cinema, an airport) so that someone else can find it and read it.
The idea came to Ron Hornbaker, an American software developer who set up (ha realizzato) a website, www.bookcrossing.com, in 2001. The purpose (scopo) of bookcrossing is to make the whole world a global reading club.
But how do you start bookcrossing?
If you want to “release” (liberare) a book, you have to register it on the BookCrossing website. Your book will be given an identification number so that it can be tracked (rintracciato). Those who find the book are requested to report (riferire) the event on the website and pass the book after they have read it. When someone records journal entries (annotazioni) for your book, you will get notified (avvertito) by e-mail. Bookcrossing has 250,000 members across the world and has also been added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary as a new word.

[adapted from www.wikipedia.org]

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