I can't throw books away. It's a big problem. I keep buying more and more books, but I never get rid of the old ones. I just can't. It feels like I'm doing something bad. It feels like killing a bird. And that's because there are many similarities between birds and books. Wait until I get to my point before you turn around and tell your friends I'm an idiot. And maybe I am. But that doesn't mean I don't have a point.

Birds and books are pretty similar. Just like there's thousands of people around the world catching birds to mark them and then releasing them there's a similar system for books. It's called Bookcrossing.

It started back in 2001 when a man and his wife wanted to do something good. They had probably gotten tired of the study that didn't look like a study anymore from all the books they kept buying and stuffing in there. Eventually the books couldn't breathe and neither could the man and wife. They needed a solution. A solution that allowed everyone involved to breathe. So they started a movement.

The process is simple. You have a bunch of books at home that you've read. There are people who haven't read those books. So what you do is that you go to www.bookcrossing.com and register one book at a time. Every book gets a number, just like the birds the bird lovers catch get a number attached to a ring around one of their ankles.

In the books you write WWW.BOOKCROSSING.COM. You then hide the books somewhere in your city. One book by the fountain, another in a waterproof box you bury in a park and the last one behind a big flower pot at your favorite cafe. When you get home you go to the website and write where you've hidden the books. This way other people can find and experience them. When they in turn have finished reading the books the remark them with their signature to let them loose again. And the books keep flying.