Bookchase
January 24, 2008
Bookchase® is a new board game about books–you get your own library card, a book shop, and your own bookshelf on which to shelve your own teensy books. All for 30 British pounds. A bit pricey for a board game, but hey…it’s got teensy books!!!! You know, my birthday was a couple of weeks ago… 
By the by, did anyone else notice that the large image in the center of the game board is that standard Microsoft clip art image of the stack of books? Yes, that one…the one you’re so tired of seeing on library posters and book lists.
Via kimbooktu via The Shifted Librarian
January 29th, 2008 at 1:55 am
Hi Sarah – I designed Bookchase so thanks for your nice comment. We’ve had so much interest world-wide. I look forward to more people actually playing the game.
Well spotted on the stack of books. My illustrator Ivan Allen said he wanted another design but I really liked that particular piece of clip art. What a shame that everyone in the world of Libraries might be sick of it – we’ll be doing different versions of the board as we develop. I’ve also just heard that The British Library (apart from their shop selling Bookchase®) is going to be using it as an ‘ice-breaker’ for one of their singles events called Mingle on 13th Feb.