bücherbox

The English daily, thelocal, reports on a urban, ad hoc library project in Berlin that revitalizes two not-obsolete but lower-tech institutions. The Institute for Sustainability in Education, Employment and Culture (INBAK) is installing bookshelves in disused telephone booths and filling them with donated literature. Some villages in the UK apparently are doing the same thing with their iconic red telephone booths. Even with whole annals and archives and borderless communication totable, it is welcoming to see the chance to take time out with real books and real totems to language.