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World Reading Habits in 2020 – Infographic
Japanese used bookstore chain really wants to buy your books
Book Off, a secondhand bookstore chain in Japan, is in dire need of inventory. To try and remedy the situation they have produced a television commercial "begging customers to sell them books" The commercial features employees standing solemnly in two lines along near-empty bookshelves pleading with the viewers to sell them books. Watch: [youtube]https://youtu.be/9kUTT4TxWV8[/youtube] What kind of books are they asking after: “Books you’ve read already” “Books that won’t fit on the book shelf.” “Books left behind by the girlfriend you forgot about!” “Books you thought would make you look cool!” “Books someone could not stop talking about but...
The Read and Rest Hotel
The latest print-infused hotel has surfaced in Beijing. The Read and Rest Hotel was designed by Office AIO and includes a library dedicated to print magazines and beautifully designed rooms and communal areas for one to kick back and getting some reading done. The hotel library is stocked with a healthy sampling of magazines from around the world. Just how committed to the print experience is the Read and Rest Hotel? Well, when you make your reservation you have the opportunity to share your personal interests so that appropriate print titles can be put in your room! Story and more...
Skeleton roams the library
While libraries wait out the Covid-19 pandemic they remain eerily quiet. So quiet in fact, that at the Lied Library at the University of Nevada Las Vegas there has been a skeleton sighting! When school is in Mandy the Skeleton is on loan for students to prepare for their anatomy and physiology exams. While things are shut down Aaron Mayes, the curator for visual materials at UNLV’s Special Collections and Archives, has let Mandy have a run of the place. More images and story at Las Vegas Review-Journal: Meet the skeleton who is watching over the UNLV library
Infographic: Some Guinness world records related to books and reading for World Book Day
