A reader writes in with this bounty from the holiday saying, “A perfect Christmas for a college student.”

Absolutely.

Photograph by Jason Woodruff, of Salt Lake City, Utah.

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We have already blogged about the Tower of Books, but here’s a very neat shot from the inside.

Photograph by Mar.tin, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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A wacky free book truck from Dayton Ohio. I’m reminded of the kooky cars that graced the Bay Area, where I grew up. Too bad they didn’t come with free books.

Photograph by Vistavision, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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I apologize for the Christmas-biased image, but from the look of things it’s probably easier to build a Christmas tree out of books than a menorah. The Book Bench is off next week, so things will be a little quiet around here. We’ll be back on the 28th. In the meantime, we wish everyone a happy holiday.

Photograph by Michelle, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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A peek inside the Espresso Book Machine.

Photograph by future15pic, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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If only books could turn into trees. An art exhibit where a tree’s innards are made from recycled books.

Photograph by Sharyn Morrow, CC-BY-NC-ND.

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Books for sale line the brick sidewalk of Market Street in San Francisco, California.

Kristen Holden, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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Livraria Lello & Irmão, in Porto, Portugal. The “third most beautiful bookshop in the world,” writes the photographer, referencing a list compiled by the Guardian. As a commenter writes on Flickr, if this is the third, we’re not so sure we can handle the first two!

Photograph by Ana Compadre , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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Two photographers write in:

In the Chaucer Bookstore in Canterbury (made famous by Chaucer, of course), a young woman is transformed into a faceless reader, engulfed by books that surround her.

Photograph by Tammy Ho Lai-Ming and Jeff Zroback. (They are the co-editors of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal.)

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The photographer writes:

Each year my friend Jan comes up with a new way to give life to old books. In September 2009, the “Thésarbre” sprouted overnight in the courtyard of the Romainmôtier Abbey Church…

The “thésarbre” is so called because its “leaves” are made out of discarded microforms of EPFL Ph.D. theses…

Beautiful! The paper on the branches reminds me of Spanish moss.

Photograph by Thomas Guignard, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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