BCinDC & the 2011 Convention

   
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You have arrived at the BCinDC website, where you can choose your own BookCrossing journey! What would you like to do?

1. Find out more about the local BCinDC meetup group
2. Learn about the 2011 Convention in Washington, D.C.
3. Contact BCinDC

On Saturday, January 28, 2012 BCinDC members met at the Ballston Mall food court to swap books and talk. We had so many members show up, we ended up acquiring table after table. There were some wrapped books that hadn’t made it to the holiday party, and we had fun reading the first lines & opening those. We also had a small army of members in convention shirts!

In attendance: 6of8 & coworker, authorauthor, beautyredefined, Firegirl, FURBALL, Ixion, KateKintail, lilbit_aj, LittleWhiteBird, LN569, melydia, SqueakyChu, and tiatia.
Many books found new homes with BCinDCers (and friend). Some will be wild released by BCinDCers, and some were taken to the OBCZ at the Sheraton.

ResQgeek is hosting the 2nd annual release challenge in honor of his daughter, Becky. Find details about this year’s release challenge over at the BookCrossing Release Challenge Forum.

You can now get a link to buy labels or download & print your own labels for your books by visiting our Remembering Becky page.

And be sure to visit http://www.beckyshugs.com/ for the Becky’s Hugs Facebook page.

Street Sense, a Washington, D.C.-based biweekly street newspaper, featured an article about BookCrossing and BCinDC in the April 27, 2011 issue. Check out the great article here: Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost

There are some t-shirts leftover after the convention that need good homes. Supplies, sizes, and colors are limited so it’s first-come, first-served. Check out the Convention Merchandise section of the How to Help page for a list of the shirts and sweatshirts available and how to order one (or more). If you already paid for a shirt but yours was one of the few in the original order that was missing, we’ll be contacting you (if we haven’t already) about sending you your shirt. The shirts only just arrived.

It’s been exactly one month since we last updated the convention fundraising meter and can officially report that, with your generous assistance, we made it to 84.4% by the end of the convention. We want to extend our gratitude to all of our amazingly generous Convention Sponsors who helped us out of serious debt. Thank you to everyone who registered for the convention, purchased extra Bally Bucks or apparel, participated in the hair dyeing fundraiser, or donated any amount. If you’d still like to donate, you’ll still get listed on our Thank You page. All money raised from this point forward will go toward the difference the fundraisers had to pay out of their pockets to the hotel.

If you’d like to get a little something back for your donation, you can donate using a special button and get a small bottle of magic catch dust (great for summer/winter gift-giving and it can even be personalized). Full details are on the How to Help page.

For those Markeroons who joined us on snarfari in downtown Washington and Alexandria, you might be having trouble remembering what all those buildings you visited were. If you would like a full list, please click here. If you have any difficulty downloading the PDF file, please email or PM us. Thanks!