It's Raining Books

Wondering what to do with your old books? It can be hard to get much (or any) cash from your local second-hand bookshop these days. If you’re a dab hand with scissors and a glue-gun, you might like to try making them into art. Surely this only took a few rainy-day afternoons, right? Spanish artist Alicia Martin’s Biografias project uses 5,000 books in each of her three site-specific sculptures, ...

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Abandoned train transformed into a bookstore in France

Reading your favorite novel while enjoy the picturesque scenic beauty through train’s small windows sounds like a beautiful dream, isn’t it? To give you the opportunity to relive those wonderful memories here is an unusual bookstore. Located in Auvers-Sur-Oise, France, this eccentric bookstore has given a meaningful twist to an old abandoned train. The store, once a discarded train has...

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The Most Interesting Bookshop in the World – Libreria Acqua Alta.

We’ve been to bookshops in almost every place we’ve visited. Sooner or later you come across one when strolling the city and a lot of times there actually is the need for a bookshop anyway: Buying a city map, some postcards (hard to find nowadays in many places) or a guidebook for your next destination. When we came across Libreria Acqua Alta in Venice, it took us some time to decide whether...

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The Ten "Ciffices" In Sydney

Yes, that’s right: we said coffice. And by coffice we mean 'coffee shop office'. Long gone are the days when all you required from your favourite café was a skilled barista and a selection of tabloids. Nowadays we expect a whole lot more — Wi-Fi, powerpoints, and ample table surface area, for starters. We want to help you meet that deadline, avoid that frustrating colleague, or...

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Top 8 Bookstores in Brooklyn

With all the power outages caused by Hurricane Sandy, you might have turned to your bookshelf for entertainment, only to discover that you needed a new book to read. Well, never fear, Brooklynites! Our bet is that you’ll probably find what you’re looking for at one of our eight favorite bookstores in the borough. Inspired by our list of the Top Ten Bookstores in Manhattan, we’ve scoped out...

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The Ten Best Bookstores in Sydney.

Remember how it rained all last winter? Well get set for another rainy season, folks: as I write this I'm looking out on to a rain-sodden Oxford Street. What with Sydney being all about beaches and carousing in the sun, we seem to cope less well with the wet and the cold. But there's so much this city has to offer, and in particular when it's miserable out and the nights get too cold to venture...

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