ghoti_mhic_uait

Over on Facebook there's a meme going around. This is the original:

"WANTED: Participants for a book-loving social experiment. Comment if you want to participate and I’ll send you details. What do you have to do? Buy your favourite book and send it to a stranger (I’ll send you a name and address.) You will only be sending one book to one person. The number of books you will receive depends on how many participants there are. The books that will show up at your door are the other people’s much loved stories #SaveTheCulture #BookExchange #LongLiveBooks"

In all the posts I've seen of it, there have been people expressing reservations about the pyramid nature of the scheme, and I share those. So I fixed it.

If you want to play, I made a swap over on Elfster. This means that I don't know who each person gets, it's entirely mystery. Buy a book, one you love, as a present, and send it. Someone else will do the same for you, and hopefully it'll be a way of trying something new.

https://www.elfster.com/exchange/view/21629452/59c345/ is the signup link, I put in a sign up deadline of 2nd January and an exchange date of 18th January, so shopping can wait until after the busy period and there is hopefully a nice thing at a time when lots of people are feeling a bit glum. Hopefully, because the idea is that it's something you love, it'll be a bit easier than trying to work out what other people like!


ps this might get international, so let me know if you don't want to send outside your country.

When you pot to a moderated community, do you get an email telling you that your post has gone through, and the URL?

(I've tried to post to holiday_wishes and they like you to go back and add tags, only I can't find it and am not sure whether that's because it's not there yet, or whether it's the huge volume of stuff)

In other news, I got a really great Secret Santa recipient at work - someone who won't guess me, but who I know what they'll like.