Do you have a light… so that I can read this tiny book inside a flip-top cigarette packet?
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To Be Shelved features yet another innovative designer: Sheldon Hui, who packaged a Hitchcock novel set to make the books look like the screenplays they inspired. They even come in envelopes addressed to the likes of Norman Bates and John “Scottie” Ferguson.
See, haters? This is why e-books are not the end of the book as an object. Books are only going to get more wonderful…
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Another mysterious book sculpture “in support of libraries, books, words, ideas & festivals” appears at Edinburgh Book Festival.
“The first sculpture is of a tray with a cup of tea and a cupcake and is inscribed: “This cup is awarded to @edbookfest” and also contains a tea bag full of letters, an unmarked book and a label which says - “This is for you in support of libraries, books, words, ideas and festivals xx.”
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Andrew Carnegie built an impressive 2,509 libraries around the turn of the 20th century. Now Rick Brooks and Todd Bol are on a mission to top his total with their two-foot by two-foot Little Free Libraries.
The diminutive, birdhouse-like libraries, which Brooks and Bol began installing in Hudson and Madison, Wisconsin, in 2009, are typically made of wood and Plexiglas and are designed to hold about 20 books for community members to borrow and enjoy. Offerings include anything from Russian novels and gardening guides to French cookbooks and Dr. Seuss.
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