Flipping through PC Magazine, I came across Book Crossing. I was immediately enchanted, not only out of a love of literature but because it reminded me of watching one of my favorite childhood movies, Paddle to the Sea (based on the book by Holling C. Holling). On the bottom of a wood carving of an Indian in a model canoe, carefully ballasted, a boy carved, "Paddle to the Sea - Please put me back in the water." He then cast the canoe into the local river. The movie was about all the people who found the canoe on its journey to the sea, many of whom lovingly repainted and marked the canoe before they put it back into the water. I never knew how much was true, but I loved the movie. Book Crossing, which asks people to "release" books after marking them with an identifying label and number, has the same idea. People who find the book can log onto the Book Crossing web site and leave their comments about the book before giving the book to someone else or leaving it for a stranger to pick up.