A tracked release programme for books you are willing to lose
Give a book away andwatch where it goes.
Stick a code inside the cover. Leave it on a train, a hostel shelf, a café table — or press it into someone's hands. Everyone who holds it next scans the code and puts a pin in the map. You never see the book again. You see everywhere it went.
Last seven check-ins
- Books out there
- 0
- Pairs of hands
- 0
- Countries reached
- 0
How a release works
- You register the book and say why you're letting it go. That note travels with it forever.
- You print the plate — a QR code, a short code, and a line in six languages explaining that the book isn't lost.
- You let go. Put it somewhere it'll be picked up, or hand it to someone leaving town.
- Strangers check it in. Twenty seconds, no account, one pin and a line about what they felt.
- You get an email every time it moves. Sometimes years later.
Most books go quiet after a hop or two — someone falls in love with it and it stays on their shelf. That's not a bug, it's the price of admission. Release a few. One of them will surprise you. Read the guide before you let one go.
Out in the world
The Hearing Trumpet
Leonora Carrington
The Passenger
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
Speedboat
Renata Adler
Add Passage to your home screen. Check-ins work even with no signal — they send themselves when you're back online.