Chapter 11 File: Eleven Eerie Closed & Abandoned Libraries
Better dead than read? Though the librarians' shushing days are long past, you still won't find many places quieter than these 11 abandoned libraries. ...
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Sensory Reading Experience Integrates Touch and Sound
Some might say that if you aren't experiencing the atmosphere of a story while you're reading, the author hasn't done her job. But we've all read a book that we loved so much, we wished we could ...
Slices of Home: Modular Mobile House-Shaped Micro-Rooms
Spatial separation can be as much about a feeling of enclosure as a physical divider, like this set of portable lounge structures that provide a semi-secluded experience in an otherwise wide-open ...
End Of The Story: 12 Abandoned & Forgotten Bookmobiles
Remember bookmobiles? Bookmobiles were bus-like rolling libraries that brought the joy of reading to folks who didn't have easy access to books. Remember books? ...
Self Snuggling: 7 Super-Cozy Full Body-Wrapping Seats
Forget your chair-and-blank combination - with these ultra-warm wonders of domestic design, curling up with a good book has never seemed more enticing. Speaking of chairs and blankets, Aga ...
Face Books: 4 Written Portraits form 3D Autobiographies
Move over, Facebook. A hybrid celebration of the written word, printed page, physical sculpture and possibilities of cutting-edge technologies, these conceptual creations breath new life into old ...
25 (More!) Unique Book Shelving & Storage Solutions
Ten years ago, many of us assumed that ebooks would make traditional books obsolete. While more of us are going paperless these days, we'll always have a soft spot for paper books and the shelves ...
A Picture is Worth: Art by 10 Brilliant Book Artists
(Check out our complete collection of Extraordinary Art from Ordinary Objects.) Who would have thought that books could be used for something other than, well, reading? Artists today are breaking ...
