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This was posted last week on Bookcrossing.com:

Get Creative for BookCrossing’s Silver Jubilee!

The 2026 International BookCrossing Day BookPlate Design Contest is now open!

To enter, create a design (illustration, drawing, photograph, knitting, sculpture, or any other creative medium) and submit it by January 20, 2026. The winner will be chosen by the BookCrossing community and will have their BookPlate design featured in the Supply Store, receive a free pack of BookPlates, a full year of Wings!

Runners up (2nd & 3rd place) will also receive prizes.

Get creative and celebrate BookCrossing’s 25th anniversary!


And here's the official thread in the discussion forum: https://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/9/602672

Some more info from that thread:
We need your design to be in our mailbox before January 20, and after that we'll put it online so people can vote for their favourite. It needs to be square, and the size needs to be 800 x 800 pixels or larger for good printing results.

Please make sure that any image you submit is something you have created yourself. Stock images and AI generated images cannot be entered into the contest. And please don't refer to a specific year, because if you win, your labels will be in the Store every year, for several years.
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Just want to post invitations to folks to join in two upcoming challenges and to remind about another.

First of all, the ongoing Never Judge a Book by its Cover (NJABBIC), which has thankfully lost it's extraneous apostrophe (and before you ask, yes mine was an intentional tongue in cheek), is now being hosted by Secretariat. I have stayed clear of this challenge in the past, but as I release so many books, I decided to give it a try and am quite enjoying it. http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/23/449069

BCinDC is hosting a release in memory of young N-R-Jyzer, daughter of ResQGeek, who was killed while riding her bike last fall. http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/23/449953 The release is on what would have been her birthday, and there are suggestions for themed books at the above link. (It ties in nicely with some other challenges, such as the Valentine Challenge (http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/23/449420).

Finally, I'm again hosting the Wine + Food + BookCrossing Challenge in March. Any way you can theme a book to Food/drink/eating/cooking or anything related is acceptable. The main purpose is to have fun and release books. You all are welcome to join in and can read more here:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/23/442985

And in forum news:

Announcements from BC Headquarters also seem to be on the FB and twitter feeds, if you're into that sort of thing.

A couple of tidbits that were mentioned in threads that were of interest to me are here:

news on plaintext/mobile version from support:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/25/449745/7105841
(and in a couple of other threads, too)

On World Book Night: http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/33/447421/7107225

On the prenumbered labels in the books registered count:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/25/450359/7106187

On printable wishlists:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/3/440329/7104142

And a question/poll from Headquarters on if you prefer the tiny sticker that fits nicely (as it) on the spines of books in the square/as is format or a rounded one.
http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/9/450520

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