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2012

December 2012

December 2012

Nearly 100 persons took part in this year’s last edition of the The Second Life of a Book campaign and exchanged books. More than 500 volumes found new owners. The next part of the campaign will take place after the New Year – we will meet traditionally at the Wyspiański Pavilion (Pl. Wszystkich Świętych 2) […]
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November 2012

November 2012

More than 150 people swapped books yesterday under the action The Second Life of a Book campaign. Stanisław Lem was the central figure of the day. Together with Wydawnictwo Literackie and the Znaczy się Foundation, we celebrated, the 61st anniversary of the publication of the novel Astronauci (The Astronauts, published on the 23rd of November […]
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October 2012

October 2012

A book record! Nearly one thousand people took part in the two special editions of The Second Life of a Book campaign organised at the Kraków Book Fair and in Galeria Krakowska during the Conrad Festival. For ten days, several thousand books found new owners, and over a hundred were donated to libraries (including Polish […]
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September 2012

September 2012

More than 150 people turned up for the book exchange at the Wyspiański Pavillion last Sunday afternoon. The swap coincided with International Translation Day; there was no shortage of foreign language books and literature in Polish translation. Those who couldn’t make it last Sunday are invited to a great literary feast in a little more […]
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August 2012

August 2012

Nearly 150 people came to the Wyspiański Pavilion on 26th of August to exchange books during this year’s last summer edition of The Second Life of a Book campaign. This time, books brought to the swap included not just ideal end-of-summer reads, foreign literature and children books, but also…textbooks. The hit of the day was an […]
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Special edition – Krakon

Special edition – Krakon

The eight-hour Second Life of a Book campaign, which took place alongside Krakon, the fantasy literature rally, was visited by over 120 books and several dozen people, some of them more than twice. The undisputed hits of the swap were novels by Andrzej Pilipiuk, J. R. R. Tolkien and Dusan Fabian, which disappeared almost immediately. […]
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July 2012

July 2012

More than a hundred people flocked to the square in front of the Wyspianski Pavilion on 29th of July to participate in The Second Life of a Book campaign and swap ideal summer reads. They were not scared off even by the rain which quickly forced the organisers to move the event indoors. All participants […]
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June 2012

June 2012

On Sunday (the 24th of June) another edition of The Second Life of a Book event took place. The main theme of this edition was journeys. We waitied for you and for books: those about holidays, those that are a perfect beach read and the ones perfect for the journey, as well as – for […]
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Special edition – for kids

Special edition – for kids

The youngest readers and their parents were invited to the first in a series of three special editions of The Second Life of a Book scheduled for this year. On the 1st of June, during the 2nd Children’s Book Fair (Hala Targów in Krakow, ul. Centralna 41a) we exchanged children’s books in a special Parents’ […]
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May 2012

May 2012

It has already become a tradition. On the last Sunday of the month, book lovers met for the fourth time this year at the Wyspiański Pavilion for the Second Life of a Book campaign. And emotions again ran high, when it turned out that one of the participants brought along… the complete The Witcher saga!
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April 2012

April 2012

More than 200 people turned up for the book exchange at the Wyspiański Pavillion on 29th April. Even though the rain forced the event to be held indoors, no one complained. This edition brought many true pearls coveted by participants ever since the launch of the campaign, including A Game of Thrones and Harry Potter […]
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March 2012

March 2012

Nearly 200 people participated in the second, spring edition of the Second Life of a Book campaign. The weather proved fine and approximately 800 volumes were brought to the square in front of the Wyspiański Pavillion, where the great literary exchange was held. The stand with children’s literature was especially popular. Many participants also turned […]
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February 2012

February 2012

More than one hundred people took part in the first edition of the Second Life of a Book campaign organised on Sunday, 26th February at the Wyspiański Pavillion. Each participant brought along an average of three books; nearly 500 volumes changed owners and another 100 found a new home in our associated libraries. The campaign […]
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