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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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