Cultural cartography

Cartographic representation of cultural explanations of definite areas.

Cultural cartography

The high-rated Book in Every Country by a Local Author, mapped

Goodreads is social media for bookworms: a site where 125 million bibliophiles meet to boost slate or ‘meh’ their latest reading project. Bookworms have “shelved” 3.5 billion books globally, which is a lot to sift through to find a read that is not just first-rate but just your taste.

With BookCrossing, your options are narrowed. Some 2 million readers have found or collected over 14,105,640 pass-me-down paper books in public, tracking each particular book object’s story through a special code attached to each one. Serendipity plays a more significant role here. You can chase for a book you know has been left, but more probably, your affinity with it will begin when you stumble upon it on a bus seat or in a British telephone booth.

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