“Have you heard of the principle of releasing books into the wild?” he went on after a few moments’ silence. “An American, Ron Hornbaker, created, or rather developed, the concept of BookCrossing in 2001. Turn the whole world into a library … a lovely idea, don’t you think? You leave a book in a public place—a station, park bench, cinema—someone picks it up, reads it, then releases it elsewhere a few days or weeks later.”
