Who knew the Dewey Decimal System could be so cute?
Good design is just so… good.
If only the uni library used Dewey Decimal instead of the ridiculously complicated Library of Congress system I would be so much less confused all the time.
Library of Congress is complicated because it’s specific. It’s well-intentioned, but it makes no goddamn sense to people who aren’t paid to understand it. (And even they don’t understand it.)
(Source: justtouchedawkwardly, via booksandhotchocolate)
"Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends"
“Buying books is immensely comforting. Maybe I won’t read them immediately, but they make me feel so much better whenever I’m sad and blue. Just their presence, it’s like having more to look forward to.”
(Source: freelove-drugs-longhair, via ladyvoldemort)
A new vending machine has been released which can print any book within minutes.
The Espresso Book Machine has access to 500,000 different books - the same as 23.6 miles of shelf space - and can even churn out a fresh copy of Crime and Punishment in just nine minutes.
Pages are printed at a rate of over 100 per minute and are then pressed, glued and cut to produce a pristine book.
Users simply pick the book they would like on a screen and wait for it to be printed … it certainly is a novel way of getting a new book
(via the-sentimentalist)
