27 Aug 2005

A reason to love the French

A passer-by runs past a book vending machine in a street of Paris, Friday, Aug. 19, 2005. Parisians craving Homer, Baudelaire or Maupassant in the middle of the night can get a quick literary fix at one of the French capital's five newly-installed book vending machines. Headline on the machine reads: 'Book anytime'.Only a truly civilized country would have vending machines for books! Now you can instantly gratify your midnight culture cravings at this 24 hour kiosk and have your book handed to you by a fancy mechanical arm!

Yahoo: “Regardless of whether they fall into the category of high culture or low, all books cost a modest $2.45.”

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