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National Library of Latvia
Riga
"Looking at the building we see an intriguing form. It is visually attractive to us. What is it like? It is expressive. It is a library, a functional symbol. It is a reminder of an outstanding historical event, important for Latvia, the making of its statehood, as well as praise to the rebirth of the state and its renewed collections of cultural treasures.
The linear nature of words fail to describe fully the three dimensional architectural shape. As to the expressivity the form has many meanings.
To perceive its meaning, it we have to return to the feelings and intuition that accompanied the moment of creation." (the architect Gunars Birkerts about the idea of the project)
If you love books, you won´t ever be able to leave this place....just don´t sit down! Go and find your way through the labyrinths!
“Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.”
Walter Moers
Make sure to check out this amazing sim inspired by Walter Moers´ Zamonia series:
your uber to The Empire of Dreaming Books
Maybe you´ll even find this one if you look close enough:
This week's Happy Caturday theme is "books". I have given away or donated almost all my books but I still have a book I made of some of my early photos, so I opened to a photo of Jimmy so I could have all three cats in today's post.
Happy Caturday: Books
The one on top is a book of poetry given to my father by his mother. The inscription is dated 1946.
The bottom book is about Earth Sciences and was owned by my grandfather, signed and dated 1903.
FYI: the combined thickness of the books is 6 cm.
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Taken on the first floor of Bromley House Library, Nottingham, 2018 - Bromley House is a private subscription library founded in 1816.
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The whole world fits inside a used bookstore with its old books and vinyl records.
And this is already the second photo in the black and white photography project depicting daily life in the city of São Paulo.
The size and extent of a persons own library says a lot about them. My bookshelves are full with extra books being added only occasionally, and when I weaken, from book sale trolleys in my libraries.
Some of what my personal library says about me is that I'm from New Zealand as these items show.
Using my lensbaby. HSosS. A great theme.
These books are all miniatures. To give you an idea of scale, the one standing up on the right is exactly 1" tall. It's about fashion through the ages and has an illustration opposite each page of tiny text. Most of my friends would probably say they'd need 10ft long arms to stand any chance of seeing it, but I'm short-sighted and can read it easily if I take my glasses off. Perhaps I've found the one advantage of being short-sighted. :)
For this week's Crazy Tuesday group theme, Libraries and Books.
Books to get by this stay home time
Poem by a Taiwan poet, 周梦蝶
Essay reflecting Growing old and taking care of old parents
3rd book is about a poet in Sung dynasty
some info digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/11117
Barter Books, Alnwick
Once a bustling Victorian railway station, today a paradise for book lovers. Alnwick’s present station was designed by railway architect William Bell and opened in 1887, replacing an earlier station dating from 1850. The branch line to Alnmouth closed in 1968, leaving the grand building without its trains.
In 1991, Stuart and Mary Manley transformed the former station into Barter Books, using the building’s platforms, waiting rooms and railway architecture as part of the shop. The bookshop now contains hundreds of thousands of books and is one of the largest second-hand bookshops in the United Kingdom.
P.S. my perspective on this image is correct, the sign really did slope to the left!