As we live in a changing world and books are now becoming a thing of the past and online books and e-readers are the 'new thing' where you can read whatever your want without sourcing or carrying around an old heavy book. So what to do with these old books apart from turning them into loo roll....
I always think its a shame when I see old books thrown away. I spend hours going round boot sales and charity shops looking for them. So I thought of ways of reusing them for something more practical after seeing a table in a old book shop in Hay-on-Wye which had an old flat piece of wood supported by big old books stacked up paying the purpose of the table legs. I thought this was really clever and unique way of displaying them and playing on the context of where books are found and what the purpose of them are and the idea of a book as an object and not the use.
So I thought I would research on the ways in which they have been used.
Here in a library in Delft they have used old books as sort of bricks to support there help desk.
Old books as planters! Italian company Gartenkultur makes these unwanted book planters by drilling holes into them and sealing the pot with insulating plastic so the water does not run into the pots. Its so sweet that paper comes from trees and then the trees can get back from to their roots literally.
Here Artist Laura Cahill creates useful vases and furniture out of old books. Books may appear to be out dated but here they are truly modern.
Images thanks to lifewithinme blog.
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