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Deze pagine ontstond op de wens van verschillende BookCrossers. De verschillende indicaties komen van bekennende BookCrossers wereldwijd... (enkel in het engels)

You know you are addicted to BookCrossing when...

47. ... your best friend is a printer shop owner because you buy so many ink cartridges to print your BookCrossing labels.

46. ... instead of reading you spend your time thinking up addiction symptoms to send to the webmaster.

45. ... your dog is running around with a clothes pin because you must read all the forum postings before taking him out.

44. ... you consider BookCrossing an excellent weight loss method because all your meals burn while you're surfing BookCrossing.com.

43. ... you start to write a PM to yourself... and you're surprised to receive 2 PMs!

42. ... the post-office official greets with "oh, you again!"

41. ... it's your 21st wedding anniversary and you still sneak upstairs to check the forums. Twice.

40. ... you are sad in a train, because you don't have any books you can leave there.

39. ... you are not invited to parties anymore, because you can only talk about one single thing.

38. ... you see a right-of-way sign and start thinking: That's not ready yet, the book with little arms and little legs is still missing.

37. ... you find yourself searching for books only at eBay - and suddenly you have bought so many books that you know for sure you can't read them within a year.

36. ... you buy a car suitable to BookCrossing advertising.

35. ... your mailman complains about all those book deliveries.

34. ... if you think of a line out of a commercial ad or a song as so easy to grasp or catchy that you start using it for your book labels, hoping it will make your books more attractive for non-BookCrossers and make it easier for them to become members...

33. ... you write new BookCrossing lyrics for existing songs. (=> filk) [so far German only]

32. ... you go back and modify all your existing journal entries after you discover a new idea (layout, color, etc.)

31. ... in your circle of acquaintances a child is born, and you ask: "When is it released?"

30. ... you run your computer 24h, 7 days, just to get direct access to BookCrossing.

29. ... you create a phone-chain all over the world, just to stay informed, when the BookCrossing page is down.

28. ... you buy a ticket to London on one of those cheap airlines just to hunt/release a BC-book.

27. ... you bought an extra bag to put in all your BookCrossing stuff: books, flyers, label-kits, stickers . . . so you will always have it readily to hand when you go out

26. ... you're checking the "go hunting"-page 20 times a day, just to see if the little numbers in your city turned red again.

25. ... you haven't got time to read good books, because you spend all day at the keyboard, reading other BookCrossers' posts (and answering them).

24. ... planning a road trip, you note which cities and towns are on the way, and check the BookCrossing site to see if there are any books you want to hunt "in the wild" there.

23. ... upon opening your own business, you immediately set it up as an official BookCrossing zone.

22. ... you've lost track of all the places that you have released books.

21. ... you buy extra copies of books you really like so you can release them.

20. ... few things get you as excited as seeing one of your books get caught.

19. ... you think about releasing a book as soon as you buy it.

18. ... going over your bookshelf, you think about what books you can release.

17. ... you drive 4 hours - each ways - just to catch a book you want to read.

16. ... you wish you had picked a WAY cooler screen name.

15. ... you're quite happy when you wake up in the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep, because then you can hang out in the forum.

14. ...you are assembling a list of BC screen names for a bookray and you don't have to look up their addresses; you remember what countries, states, even cities they all live in.

13. ... you are watching a movie in which the background consists of a huge floor to ceiling, wall to wall bookcase crammed with books; you forget all about the movie and think to yourself "Look at ALL those books that are just sitting there, going to waste, when they could be released!"

12. ... you have a question about anything other than BookCrossing and still go to the forum for your answer.

11. ... you panic when the site is down.

10. ... you picture yourself wearing yellow tights with a running book emblazoned at the chest and a flowing cape.

09. ... you feel non BookCrossers are deprived and they NEED you to see the light.

08. ... "in the wild" has a whole new meaning.

07. ... you would much rather share you life events with other BookCrossers.

06. ... you have more in common with BookCrossers you don't know than with the people you do know.

05. ... you buy books you'll never read just to register them and post them in the forum.

04. ... you don't understand why some people "don't get" BookCrossing.

03. ... you use RABCKs, bookrays, bookboxes and other BookCrossing vocabulary with wretched non BookCrossing members and expect them to get it.

02. ... you don't remember what you did with your free time before BookCrossing.

01. ... you hit the refresh link every 2 seconds.

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