These readers are eager to pass the book

Another Story on BookCrossing.com, a virtual book club aimed at turning the whole world into a lending library.

Here’s the idea: Take a book you’ve read, register it at the BookCrossing site, slap a special identifying label inside the cover, and leave the book in a public place.

When someone finds it and logs on to the Web site using the book’s BookCrossing ID number, you get notified by e-mail.