Phone booth library

 Phone booth library in social  with phone booth phone library Book

 Phone booth library in social  with phone booth phone library Book

One of Britain’s few remaining traditional red phone booths has been recycled into one of the country’s smallest lending libraries – stocking 100 books. Villagers from Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset can use the library around the clock, selecting books, DVDs and CDs. Users simply stock it with a book they have read, swapping it for one they have not.

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  1. Tweets that mention Phone booth library | Recyclart -- Topsy.com - July 26, 2010

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  2. Sheri Pfau - October 12, 2010

    Phone booth library, a grand idea, another use for the obsolete.

  3. I have been in New Vegas « Cur Made - October 25, 2010

    [...] In case you need something better right now, check out the phone booth library. [...]

  4. Phonebox library « Library Shenanigans - December 14, 2010

    [...] (Thanks, BoingBoing!) More photographs of the phone booth library are here: http://www.recyclart.org/2010/07/phone-booth-library/. Thanks, Dina [...]

  5. Shai - June 25, 2012

    Re-purposing at it’s finest!

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