This Book Travels is a real journal that moves from person to person, sometimes handed to a friend and sometimes left for a stranger to discover. Each Finder adds a small entry, logs their find and a photo online, and sends the journal back into the world. Its physical pages and growing digital map form one unfolding story shaped by many hands. Released as a family of five journals, each with its own personality that inspires how people interact with it, it offers a playful, open-ended experiment in creativity, exploration, and human connection. Anyone who finds a journal becomes part of the adventure and helps carry the story forward.

If you do not have a journal, the only way to get one is to be given one by a friend or to find one in the world. Since there are only five journals in circulation, most people follow along online — through each journal’s page, on Instagram at @explorable.world, or by signing up for email updates or notifications for when This Book Travels journals become available for purchase later in 2026.

There’s no guaranteed way to find one of the journals. Only five exist, and they’re already moving from place to place, guided by the people who carry them.

You can check each journal’s page to see its last known location, or follow updates on Instagram at @explorable.world. Sometimes a Finder shares where they left a journal, and someone nearby may have a chance to go looking.

If you don’t come across one in the world, you can still be part of the project. The Get Connected page lets you follow the journey, receive occasional updates, or let us know if you’d like to be notified when future journals become available.

However you choose to take part, you’re welcome here. The story continues through everyone who pays attention, follows along, or adds a small moment of their own.

Not really. Many travelling book projects begin with ordinary books and a simple invitation to pass them along. They are lovely ideas, but they often stall because the book itself gives people very little to do, nothing to explore, and no clear sense of contribution or momentum.

This Book Travels is different from the first page.
Each journal is intentionally designed as a public, shared object with dozens of ways for people to interact. There are prompts, missions, tear-out pages, sticker spaces, world maps, doodle sections, and reflection pages that work for every age and every personality. Even people who do not usually write in journals find something they can do within seconds.

Every journal also connects to an online journey map at explorable.ca, where Finders log their entry and add a photo. The physical and digital experiences support each other, which keeps the project alive even when the journal is between hands.

This combination of purpose-made design, built-in creativity, and global visibility makes the journals far more engaging and far more likely to keep moving. It is what makes people want to participate, share it, talk about it, and pass it forward.

For readers, travelers, gift-givers, bookstores, libraries, and community hubs, the result is simple.
These journals do not sit still. They travel, they spark stories, and they pull people in.

Yes. Even if you never come across one of the journals in person, you can still follow the journey online.

Each journal has its own page where you can see where it’s been, read past entries, and watch its story unfold over time. You can also follow updates on Instagram at @explorable.world, where moments from the journey are shared as they happen.

If you’d like to stay more closely connected, you can visit the Get Connected page to receive occasional updates or be notified if new journals become available in the future.

You don’t need to find a journal to be part of the story. Following along is part of it too.

Choose a public place or hand it to someone who you think will appreciate it.

We value your privacy. We will only publish your first name or nickname with your submission. Anything you share with us may be posted online or used to help spread the word about This Book Travels. If you prefer not to show your face, you can still share a photo or video with the journal without including your face.

The story continues until the journal finds its way back home to Explorable or is lost forever somewhere in the world. A new one may be seeded.

Most Finders spend a day or two with the journal.
Some keep it for a weekend or until they finish one small activity.
What matters is that it keeps moving.

Here is a simple guide:

• 1 to 3 days is ideal
  Enough time to add your mark, take a photo, and enjoy a moment with it.
• Up to a week is completely fine.
  Especially if you are traveling, hiking, or waiting for the right handoff moment.
• More than a week? Only if you’re actively doing something with it
  For example: taking it on a trip, completing a challenge, or finishing a page you want to return after doing something interesting with it.
• Try not to let it sit unused
  If life gets busy and you realize you won’t get to it, no problem.
  Just pass it on so someone else can enjoy it.

Two simple rules keep the project alive:
Add something small. Pass it on.

No pressure, no deadlines — just a shared responsibility to help the journal continue its journey.

If you want to mention why you held it a little longer, you can add that in your online log at explorable.ca. This helps others understand the journal’s pace and adds to its story.

Explorable is the creative home behind This Book Travels and other projects built around curiosity, movement, and shared experience.

At its heart, Explorable is about making things explorable rather than finished or fixed. Instead of creating things meant to be consumed and set aside, we create things meant to move, change, and grow through human participation.

That might look like a journal that travels from person to person, gathering stories as it goes. Or a project that invites people to slow down, notice more, and leave a small trace of themselves behind.

Explorable projects are designed to be open-ended. They invite curiosity, encourage connection, and make room for unexpected moments. The story is never complete, because the people who take part become part of it.

This Book Travels is the first expression of that idea — a living experiment in what can happen when something is made not to be owned, but to be shared.

We’d love to hear from you.

If you’ve got a question or if you’d like to contribute or collaborate, contact us at Explorable