Quiet at the Library
To everyone who complained about book abuse in the 478 comments in the Don’t Like Reading, Read On post, here is a little ray of sunshine for you. As both books and classic red phone booths are becoming a thing of the past, a village in Somerset, England has merged the two rare commodities.
The bright red old phone booth was purchased for just 1 pound and remodeled as the smallest library in the world. Residents line up to swap their already read books for new ones left by other patrons. Over 100 books and a variety of movies and music CDs are available at this tiny library.
Sorry that no one else picked up on Dave’s awesome doctor who reference.
I’ve never seen a library inside a phone booth before
That is an awesome idea, if it were feesable…If I was a patron waiting in line to get a book, well lets just say it wouldn’t be pretty in the line. It’s probably a good thing they don’t have those in the United States. Apparently it works in other countries and I’m glad that they have found a system that works. Americans have too much anger to stand in lines all day long!
But good work & good job to the person who came up with a way to use the old telephone booths instead of there being more waste on Our Planet…
It just proves the love for the written word, priceless!
that is agood idea if it wer passable
People did pick up on the tenuous Dr Who reference but chose to ignore it because those jokes weren’t even funny when they were original! Imagine how funny they are now that they have been rinsed one hundred and sixty two million two hundred and seventy three thousand four hundred and ninety nine times before!
If I lived in that village I would cover the box in lighter fluid and burn it. I would then do my naked dance and paint my body in worship to beelzebub! because i hate books and love saturn!
Maybe a police box ala Dr. Who could be a mobile first-aid station or drug store!
Every person who wrote over 3 sentences arguing against trollers = gay
Lol, if you were so above trollers and their posts, you wouldn’t bother arguing back in the first place. you wouldn’t lift a pinky, because you’d be sensible enough to realize that your irritance is the sole and foremost obective of a troller. so really, trollers are a step and a half ahead of you, because they are completely aware of the effect that their comments will have on suckers like you. and rephrasing a comment already poste dby someone does not have a stronger effect the 154th time round. like, no one really cares that you are offended by the misuse of the world “gay.” It’s the 21 century dudes…gotta get used to it.
and also, I agree that using words you obviously thesaurused and wouldn’t use in every day speech makes you look neither knowledgable nor witty. This is a forum, not Writers Craft. Chill..
And to wrap this up: to every person who pulled the “gay means happy” card, YOU ARE THE POSTER CHILDREN OF GAY. Y O U A R E G A Y.
CHEERS!
i hate england, and i hate england’s food, but who could hate the smallest library in the world, or anything else that has the inherent aim of bringing a community together with a spark of originality. its not “gay”, its clever, even if it is “british”. i give it a thumbs up.
I love how this community is using their wits and sharing their resources this way. I hope they’re not too famous, and get everything stolen now! I’m a fan of libraries, large and small.
Also, I just want to say that everyone calling this gay is not really insulting anyone gay because the library is a great idea. Maybe you should read a book! Your bragging about being illiterate is what concerns me the most, besides your obvious attempts at cyber-bullying.
Whoever put this post up should also be monitoring the comments. And since they’re not, we should be saying something to the naysayers. It’s called peer review, and it helps establish civility.
2 words FREEDOM OF SPEACH!!
Everyone has their own views and opinions and we all have the same rights to view them on here whether you agree with them or not!
I will leave you with this comment… I can remember this one guy who wanted everyone to have the same views and opinions as him and he went to great lengths to do so, Yes that’s right, I’m talking about HITLER!! YOUR ALL AS BAD A HITLER!! There I said it. I WIN!!
:):):):):):):):) DISCUSSION OVER!!!:):):):):):):):)
Wish we had this in the States…
i wish i could start something like this in our neighborhood..but i dont know what to use instead of the red phone booth since its not available here..
Will somebody please explain to this Luddite – what is the relationship between gay and phone boxes – I do have an imagination and I can “think outlside of the box~” but I must admit I fail on this one. Have I been missing a slice of life all of these years? – Perhaps I should have studied Freud in college in greater depth? Vincenzo
Well said Vincent. This person clearly has both a lack of creativity and of knowledge of the English language.
You guys having this… “spirited discussion”: would you like it if we put up a proper forum for it?
Such a sweet idea.
well that’s quite an innovative idea.
Yesh!! Letsh have a forum entitled “Library Phone Boxesh, are they realy gay or ish it jusht an act to get meat inside them?”
bravo 10/10
I wish they had that around when I was still alive!
a witt’el lybraye! att’s neat!
I actually thought this was a joke until i really looked at the picture. Pretty solid idea given the fact that traditional libraries are somewhat dying
I really like that as an idea. I do a lot of work with a client in London and they have a shelf set aside for the same thing. I’ve ended up reading things I wouldn’t normally which is great…
Wish I had stumbled upon this story while I was in the U.K. so I could have visited. Great story.
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But yeah pretty awesome.
@Keri
Spoken like a true American. It’s no wonder why the majority of the world can’t stand us, as ignorant as 90% of us are. “Those damn Brits, wanting to use a library for reading.” I’m surprised you could string together enough letters to made a coherent thought, Steve!
I totally agree. Its a shame that such a great idea that was meant for our country has been tarnished and corrupted with the ignorance and childishness of people like Steve, Brian, and every other pathetic person who seems to think that because its cool to not read or to trash other people that it must be done. To all such people out there, your very presence taints the earth you stand on and I believe that the world could be a much better place if you could all gather and inhale some toxic fumes. To everyone who supports reading and individuality, I hope that you will continue to grace such great ideas with your inspired comments.
this is so awesom, i wish i could go there, too bad i’m from the states! but this is just one of the billions of reasons of why i want to go to England!!
@Kurai Hinotomi
I tend to agree that more people should read, however, I don’t see any of these “childish” or “Ignorant” people wishing harm on anyone unlike yourself. “the world could be a much better place if you could all gather and inhale some toxic fumes” reminds me of a certain famous person, and not many people liked him.
If the world was full of intolerant people like you then there would be no hope for the human race because you would have all “gassed” each other for as little as looking at you in the wrong way.
No matter how educated you think you are, No matter how much better you think you are than anyone else, you are still too ignorant and moronic to even notice that 99% of these comments is bait to lure intolerant ppl like yourself in. Its ppl like you that make trolling so fun! keep up the good work!
I will leave you with this message:
“Im a little teapot short and stout, heres my handle and heres my…. Damn it Im a suga bowl.”
i love how original all the haters on here are. i approve of the comment that its lesbian. at least some hater is thinking outside the box. really cool even though im not a big reader
haha love it!!!!! wish there was one in my area i would be there ALL the time lol
The fact that people made the effort to type out the sentence ‘This is gay.’ is stupid. If you’ve got nothing good/interesting or otherwise useful to say, shut the fuck up. Excuse my vulgarity, but… Somebody has to say it. The idea of a neat little library is indeed ‘gay’. In the word’s origional sense. It is a very pleasant/happy idea.
omg that is soo homosexual!
No. Shut up.
I think its an awesome Idea, and even if there is one million better ways of doing this is doesn’t matter cus this is fun and creative and how is creativity gay or even a bad thing? (like gay is even a bad thing also) its cheap and fun and is individual, I dont understand why people that for some reason have issues with this dont just f**k off! no1 is asking you to even look at the thing? If you like to be a sheep then go and do it but the rest of us with a brain and the want to enjoy ourselves how we like too will carry on and we will be gay when we do so! woooPEEEEE!!! xD
brilliant. I wonder how long it will be before all of the books in the library are by John Grisham. Love the idea though.
Why would you use gay for some type of dis? You know what is gay? Justin Beiber. Red Phone Booths are awesome. Books are awesome. Neither are gay because neither can have sexual relations. I mean really.
We have this at my school… its fun at first.
WONDERFUL!!
Funny how most people who “are not” gay and call others or other things gay, usually ARE gay, good luck Coming Out, we will try to be nice to you.
What a fabulous recycle for redundant phone booths! Perfect for villages too small to justify a normal-size library. Love this idea!
I would have to agree this is totaly gay!
REDUNDANT PHONE BOOTHS ARE GAY!!!!!
That’s kinda retarded. It’s not just a stupid idea but also……
I take that back it IS just a stupid idea.
I am male and I have been having an affair with a gay phonebox for over two years now. We are very happy.
so the books are sexually attracted to other books? or are you just a bunch of ignorant homophobic moron’s who’s opinion isn’t worth shit.
It’s so small, though!!! Why don’t they buy a few more of those awesome phone booths and kind of push them all up together? I think it’s a great idea but I am too impatient. I would not wait in that line…
I think this is such a neat idea for several reasons. Not simply making the books available, but preserving these wonderful old phone booths. This is what we call them across the pond, and I can’t recall the British term. Are there any books on Dr. Who?
Classic red phone box – check
Free books – check
What’s not to like?
We just call them phone boxes btw.
Wow, its amazing to think think that all you guys care about is your own opinion, im 14 and i know the difference between a right anda wrong comment i just read through most of these comments and right after the other all I saw was “thats gay”…”thats pretty gay” and somthing having to do with books having sex. First of all GROW UP second get a life all your doing by making rude comments like that at somthing truely amazing is setting yourself up to fail. Many people believe that this picture reresents somthingg pretty cool….not “PRETTY GAY” so shove your non-wanted opinions that you should really keep to yourself…BACK DOWN THAT PRETTY LITTLE THROAT OF YOURS.
We’ve done this for years on a table in the breakroom at work. It’s how I discovered John Grisham. I think we have more books than that, too.