Melville House Books

Now you can take your library with you, without an e-reader! According to this post on the Inhabitat site, “If you’re not quite ready to donate excess texts or replace them with electronic versions, David Garcia Studio offers an innovative solution: Archive II, a circular bookshelf propelled by walking that is currently on exhibition at Denmark’s University of Roskilde Main Library.

According to Garcia, “The average reader can read about 240 words per minute. A 300 page book normally takes 9 hours to read, non-stop. If you read while you walk, you can read a book in about 43 kilometers. If you read and walk, watch out for traffic.” Always good advice.

Valerie Merians is the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.