Journey of a Book

Every day, a book travels around the world with the sun.

It opens at the first sunrise, on an island in the Pacific, and travels west with the light, over every city and village, until the last sunset closes it.

On the way, it collects short stories from people like you. Not news, not opinions. One small moment from an ordinary day.

The idea started in 2013 as a real book passed from writer to writer across Europe and Russia, to replace national stereotypes with real people. Now the whole world can write it, one minute at a time.

What you do

Once a day, tell the Book one moment.

1. Read today's question. Everyone on Earth gets the same one, so the voices answer each other. You can also just tell one moment from your day.
2. Press record and talk, up to 60 seconds. No need to prepare. A smell, a sound, someone you met, what your hands did.
3. Listen back. Don't like it? Record again, as many times as you want. Nothing leaves your phone until you press Send.

What you get

Your journal, and the story of the whole day.

• 📓Your journal. Every moment you send stays here, on this device, to listen to later. A diary in your own voice.
• 📖The Story of the Day. When the sun has set everywhere, the Book's narrator weaves that day's voices into one short story: real people, their own words, handing the day from one place to the next.
• ✉️A stamp from every place. No city names inside the story. Each voice is marked with a postage stamp of where it came from.

This is an early test with a small group of friends. The first stories will be shared in the chat where you found this link.

Your recording, honestly

What happens when you press Send

• Your recording, the city you type and today's question are stored on our server (Cloudflare). We don't ask for your name and don't need it.
• We turn your recording into text with an AI service and use the text to write the Story of the Day.
• The story may quote your words, without your name. The only place it shows is your city, on a stamp.
• We will not publish your voice itself without asking you first.
• You can delete any recording from your journal at any time. It's then deleted from our server too.

I understand, and I agree my recordings are stored and quoted this way.