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_sushiThe 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?
[-]-- 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 random, halfbakery