The whole point is that everyone shares the same copy, you make a journal entry for the book at http://www.bookcrossing.com/home because the book has been registered there. You get to see the author's signature in the front of the book because it is a signed copy, and all for the cost of posting it on to the next person on the list. I just thought it would be something different that would tell us a bit about the valley life of our ancestors, something we could share for the cost of postage. I do bookrings quite often so I do know about them Ann