The people of Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset, England recently suffered a double blow when their public phone box was decommissioned and the mobile library service ceased to operate.
What were they do do? Surely the answer is obvious. They took ownership of the phone box through BT’s Adopt a Kiosk program and rather than turning into an art installation, shower, or toilet like others have done, they filled it with books.
The collection consists of about 100 books and residents simply return a book they have read and take one they have not yet read. Simple, and it’s open 24 hours.
[BBC news via The Wheeler Centre]
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this is totally fabulous! a pal of mine dreams of doing this with all the abandoned caravans on his dad’s farm…
The question is, would he sort the books into different caravans by subject or colour?
apparently by colour – I suggested as there are 3 vans, he calls it the Roy G Biv Memorial Library (van 1 = red thru yellow, 2 = green, 3 = blue to violet)