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DO YOU READ ME? Bookstores From Around the World.
, Gestalten Verlag, 2020 Hardcover, 260 x 210 mm, 256 p, throughout colour illustrations, English edition. ISBN 9783899559941.
Bookshops are powerful places with the freedom to deep-dive into their niches, from cooking to cartoons, architecture to anarchy. Do You Read Me? reconsiders the bookshop as a cornerstone of the community, where subcultures have the physical space to thrive. Bookshops are universally recognized as marketplaces of knowledge, curiosity, inspiration, and entertainment. They also promote communication and tolerance across cultures and have become destinations for both local communities and travelers. Within a changing media environment their role has been shifting, leading their overseers to pursue different ways to engage with their customers and build local-and sometimes even regional- support for their businesses. Do You Read Me? seeks out the most innovative and beautiful bookshops achieving this, sharing their concepts and celebrating book culture in all its glorious forms.
TEMPLES OF BOOKS Magnificent Librairies Around the World
, Gestalten Verlag, 2022 HB, 260 x 209 mm, 288 p, throughout illustrations color.ENG edition. ISBN 9783967040241.
In 2016, the world's oldest existing library reopened in Fes, Morocco. It opened for the first time in the 9th Century. These shrines to the written word date back even further, and continue to be built today. They're a place where some of the oldest written texts are preserved and some of the newest technology connects visitors with vast amounts of knowledge. Libraries are changing, but, as places that are fundamentally free and open to all, they're also staying the same. Libraries of the World explores the most stunning examples, but it also explores how varied the idea of a library can be. It can be a grand Baroque hall with leather-bound tomes or a mid-century masterpiece, but it can just as easily be a few shelves in a repurposed phone booth.
