In relay
Speedboat
- Hands
- 0
- Distance
- 17,767 km
- Countries
- 0
- Days out
- 0
Has travelled the diameter of the Earth
Nobody has scanned this copy since July 2025. It may be on a shelf, in a box, or already somewhere new and unrecorded. If it's in your hands, check it in.
Why it was let go
A friend pressed this on me in a bar and refused to take it back. It is barely a novel — more a series of very sharp paragraphs that do not obviously connect until suddenly they do.
I have read it four times. That feels like enough for one person.
Holding this copy? Scan the code inside the front cover, or type it in. The code is deliberately not printed on this page , otherwise anyone reading along could add a stop that never happened.
The record
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01 Stockholm Sweden 6 November 2024 · released by Meera
Café shelf, Södermalm
Their review
Left between a Swedish crime novel and a book about mushrooms. Off it goes. -
1,125 km 19 days later
02 Amsterdam Netherlands 25 November 2024 · picked up by Joos
Seat pocket, Amsterdam Centraal
Perfect train book — you can start it anywhere. Read a third of it and passed it to the woman opposite me, who was going considerably further than I was.
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16,642 km 221 days later
03 Sydney Australia 4 July 2025 · picked up by Tam
Hostel common room, Bondi
Carried in a rucksack from Amsterdam by someone who never checked it in, then handed to me at a barbecue. It has come a very long way to end up on a beach.
Left for whoever came next Somebody take this further than I did.
The next stop hasn't happened yet.
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