Pay phone booth repurposed as a tiny library — a “take a book, leave a book” little library.
I LOVE THIS — a creative reuse and community win!
This micro-library sits in Houston, Texas, outside local coffee house Black Hole — with a laundromat next door — near the University of St. Thomas and Houston’s Museum District.
(photo by me, Houston-based Unconsumptioneer, mollyblock)
Earlier Unconsumption posts on creative new uses for pay phones and phone booths can be found here, and library-related items here.
Bookshelf of the week, hands down.
This subway library has posters of books and scannable barcodes—zap ‘em with your phone to get a 10-page preview while you ride!
A cool project proposed by a group of Miami Ad School students. Commuters who scan a book’s title not only can read the first ten pages of that book, but can learn, via near-field communication (NFC) technology, which nearby library has the book. Read more about the idea on Design Taxi here.
Gotta say, this is a leading contender for bookshelf of the week.
More creative new uses for old books:
Make table runners from the pages of unwanted books, e.g., books damaged beyond repair.
(via BHG)
Phone booths re-purposed as micro-libraries in New York City. (via Designboom)
I love urban interventions, especially when books are involved. (Check out this newspaper stand converted into a community lending library, if you haven’t already seen it.)
Anyway, this NYC phone-booth-turned-book-swap is a great addition to the group of repurposed phone booths featured previously on Unconsumption (here), which includes other micro-libraries in various cities.
Are there other repurposed phone booths that we — your friendly Unconsumption hosts — haven’t yet come across?
Is that a fire hose? If so, good thinking.
Beautiful, isn’t it? (The wall of books, I mean. Not the fire hose.) File under: bookshelf of the week.
