By
Paul Biba
One of my favorite sites on the web, bookofjoe, has a series of pictures of beautiful libraries that will just take your breath away. Go over and take a look. I’d happily read my Kindle in any of them. The one pictured here is the Suzzallo Librare in Seattle, Washington, USA.
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August 31st, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Enjoy them now. When ebooks completely replace pbooks, as some people (not me) wish, there will be no need for libraries — beautiful or not.
August 31st, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Possibly. But for an alternate take on what will happen to libraries, or at least to one particular library, when e-books “replace” p-books, check out Vernor Vinge’s Rainbows End, which I reviewed right here. You can even read the book on-line for free.
August 31st, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Ebooks or not, I get all weak at the knees when I see a really beautiful library. Having a look at the rest of the website (and there are 3 lots of photos) I would have to pick Melk and Trinity College Dublin as my favourites. Don’t ask me why and they are probably wildly impractical, but definitely appealing.
I love getting “lost” in my university’s library, even if not having the eye appeal of any of these wonderful places.