Passage Books that do not stay put

Copy R6TFC3SW · Returned home

Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke

ReleasedDELHI4 Jun 2025India
In handISTANBUL16 Jul 2025Turkey
In handKRAKÓW12 Oct 2025Poland
In handMUNICH8 Apr 2026Germany
HomeDELHI4 May 2026India
Hands
0
Distance
12,349 km
Countries
0
Days out
0

Ten thousand kilometres

Why it was let go

Released with a return address in it, mostly as an experiment. I did not expect to see it again.

It came back eleven months later with nine names in the back and a train ticket from Kraków being used as a bookmark. I am not releasing this one again.

— Ravi, who released it in June 2025

The record

01 / 05
ReleasedDELHI4 Jun 2025India

Bench outside Lodhi Garden

Ravi · 4 June 2025

With a return address in the back, mostly to see whether anyone would ever use it.

02 / 05
In handISTANBUL16 Jul 2025Turkey

Ferry to Kadıköy

Deniz · 16 July 2025

Read most of it crossing the Bosphorus twice on purpose.

4,554 km since the last check-in

03 / 05
In handKRAKÓW12 Oct 2025Poland

Hostel kitchen, Kazimierz

Ola · 12 October 2025

Someone left this and a train ticket together. I have kept the ticket in it as a bookmark, which feels correct.

1,226 km since the last check-in

04 / 05
In handMUNICH8 Apr 2026Germany

Reading room, Stadtbibliothek

Jonas · 8 April 2026

The list of names in the back is now longer than the introduction.

Left for whoever came next It is asking to go home. I am going to post it.

645 km since the last check-in

05 / 05
HomeDELHI4 May 2026India

Back on the shelf it left from

Ravi · 4 May 2026

Arrived in a padded envelope from Munich with nine names in the back and a Kraków train ticket still in it. Eleven months, four countries. This one has earned a retirement.

5,924 km since the last check-in

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