In 2007, Vin Scelsa, a great voice from the NY rock station WNEW FM radio was interviewing Tony Bennett. He asked Bennett what he thought of Van Morrison’s jazz influenced rock music. Bennett replied “Van who?”. “You mean you’ve never heard Moondance” he asked. “No, I haven’t” said Bennett. Scelsa tripped over himself trying to find his Moondance CD. “I’m going to introduce one of the greatest rock songs ever recorded to one of the greatest pop vocalists of the 20th century” Scelsa said. He played Moondance, Bennett raved. Tell me that experience isn’t near the top of Scelsa’s list of career accomplishments.
Book Crossing is a brilliant way to share your favorite books with, well, the world. The premise is simple, you print free or custom labels which contain a unique ID number for your book and instructions on how Book Crossing works. You label your book and leave it in a public place for someone to take. That person can read your book and when finished, leave it somewhere for someone else. The label instruction asks each person who reads your book to go to www.bookcrossing.com and simply log in your book’s ID number and the book’s current whereabouts. The book moves from person to person across the country and around the world and you can track its travels. And it’s all free. How cool is that!
Now all the glass half empty people are asking, “you give away a perfectly good book that you’ve paid for?” Yes, that’s right. Now you can play Moondance for the whole world.
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