Free Books! Gratis, gratis!

I'm a big fan of social networking/web 2.0; it's the power of generosity and humaneness that exalts itself magnanimously within such arenas. 

I found this cool site:  BookCrossing.   The idea is to publicly distribute books and keep track of these books via their own ID number.  You place a book on a bench in the park, on the stairs of a building, a coffee shop in the mall, and jot it down on the site - the book is now ("out in the wild," as they call it).  Whoever picks it up can then sign into the website and state they have got it if they are so inclined.

I am releasing Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind," somewhere tomorrow (it's a book that's been lying around; I actually want to read it one day, but I don't think I'll get to it for some time).