In the Sushi Library, a continuous stream of books opened at pages displaying a full spectrum of all kinds of images, including diagrams and mathematical symbols, slowly drifts past a long row of seated browsers. As soon as a book is taken off the conveyor by a potential borrower, another different one slides into its place.

Through statistical analysis the most popular books are eventually represented by multiple copies.
-- xenzag, Jul 05 2008

Wikipedia: Conveyor belt sushi http://en.wikipedia...Conveyor_belt_sushi
The particular style of sushi restaurant xenzag is referring to here. [jutta, Jul 07 2008]

What's for dessert ? [+]
-- 8th of 7, Jul 05 2008


lovely +
-- xandram, Jul 05 2008


Isn't this what Amazon does?
-- MisterQED, Jul 05 2008


Finally, a library that serves sake !
-- normzone, Jul 05 2008


[Normzone], you obviously don't patronise the right sort of library ....
-- 8th of 7, Jul 05 2008


This is awesome.
-- phundug, Jul 06 2008


In a fleeting effort to prove that the concept could virtually be applied to anything of interest with the same amount of efficacy, I realized it wasn't the case. [+]
-- daseva, Jul 06 2008


You know you're just going to want to read again an hour later.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jul 06 2008


Sorry, I am too impatient for this, plus who flips what pages to what place?

Perhaps if it was a 'recommended books' conveyer belt that was embedded in the walls of a regular library; this could catch your eye when you are momentarily between stacks. But for a library that only has this conveyor belt contraption?

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-- mylodon, Jul 06 2008


I would like to see this as an on-line thing.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jul 07 2008


// Sorry, I am too impatient for this, plus who flips what pages to what place?//

umm...the librarian chef.
-- xandram, Jul 07 2008


Lovely stuff. Perhaps the books could be left to fall open at their most-thumbed, spine-cracked pages, these being usually climactic or otherwise mucky scenes, one imagines, and therefore most likely to entice the febrile grasp of the library customer.
-- calum, Jul 07 2008


I'd ask for the dictionary but not take it.
-- daseva, Jul 07 2008


Pretty. +
-- nomocrow, Jul 07 2008



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