BookCamming

This is sooo much fun!

BookCrossing is a voyeuristic activity at the best of times, so much so that I actually feel uncomfortable when someone appears in one of my shots and then places the camera down my throat. Very uncomfortable.

But this is safe.

Alerted here by the BookCamming yesterday when BookCrossers and "civilians" grappled for the controls of the webcam, observed by the entire population of ChitChat, I dived over there this morning to catch ArJohn doing his release.

The actual web cam was about as boring as you could get short of pointing at a brick wall, come to think of it, that's exactly what it was doing, save that there was a street in between and people would drive by on the wrong side.

As the hour of release got closer, I discovered that the webcam hung up and sometimes didn't refresh and I figured that we were overloading the poor thing in the well-known "herd of BookCrossers" effect and that as the excitement built there'd be hundreds of BookCrossers looking on and not too many would be able to see anything.

So there was an opportunity. I roughed out a script as I made my cup of coffee and simply told the story. It pretty much happened as I foresaw, except that thebiblioholic also got in on the act and yokospungeon laughed herself silly. And a few clever people figured out it was a load of gammon, especially those few who had a feed.

The thread is here, but for those who find it all a bit choppy, here's my description of events:

( ArJohn's release commentary )

Needless to say, I was only able to see as much as anyone else - a few images here and there.

TRE in Fort Worth

Here's the TRE on its Fort Worth - Dallas shuttle run.