英语学习资料:德国志愿者们街头设立公共书架不限读者

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英语学习资料：德国志愿者们街头设立公共书架不限读者

公共书架“漫步”德国街头

these free-for-all libraries, people can grab whatever they

want to read, and leave behind anything they want for others.

There's no need to register, no due date, and you can take or give

as many as you want。

Take a book, leave a book. In the birthplace of the printing

press, public bookshelves are popping up across the nation on

street corners, city squares and suburban supermarkets。

In these free-for-all libraries, people can grab whatever they

want to read, and leave behind anything they want for others.

There's no need to register, no due date, and you can take or give

as many as you want。

"This project is aimed at everyone who likes to read —

without regard to age or education. It is open for everybody,"

Michael Aubermann, one of the organizers of the free book

exchange in the city of Cologne, told The Associated Press。

The western city's latest public shelf, a €5,000 ($6,883) steel

bookcase with acrylic glass doors, was put up two weeks ago next

to Bayenturm, one of the city's medieval towers. It is the fourth

free shelf that Aubermann's group, the Cologne Citizen's

Foundation, has placed outside; there are two more inside local

Ikea outlets。

"We installed our other outdoor shelves last year and it's

been working really well," said Aubermann, a 44-year-old who

works in IT management。

The public book shelves, which are usually financed by

donations and cared for by local volunteer groups, have popped

up independently of each other in many cities across Germany

including Berlin, Hannover and Bonn, and also in suburbs and

villages。

Each shelf holds around 200 books and it takes about six

weeks for a plete turnover, with all the old titles replaced by new

ones, he said。

Even mercial book stores and online book retailers seem to

support the idea of free book exchanges。

"We see this project rather as a sales promotion than as

petition," said Elmar Muether, the acting branch manager at

Cologne's Mayersche Buchhandlung book store. "If books are

present everywhere, it helps our business too."

Bettina Althaus, a spokeswoman for , a German

online bookstore parable to Amazon, also weled the movement。

"Public bookshelves are in no petition with the online book

trade. On the contrary, we are happy about any kind of

motivation to read," Althaus said。

So far, the Cologne book group has had few problems with

vandali *** or other kinds of abuse, though a used-book seller

once scooped up every volume on a shelf to sell at a flea market.

Another time the shelves kept getting stacked with material from

a religious group。

"We made sure to get rid of that stuff as quickly as possible,"

Aubermann said. "Propaganda is the only kind of literature we do

not allow here, whether it is right-wing, racist or proselytizing."

At another bookshelf in the Bayenthal neighborhood, the

lower shelves were reserved for children's literature only。

"It is important that we make it easy for everyone to overe

their inhibitions and participate in this 'reading culture on the

street' — from old readers to kids to immigrants," Aubermann

said。

While most of the shelves have so far been put up in upscale

neighborhoods, Aubermann and the 20 volunteers who help look

after the project are planning to put up future shelves in poor

neighborhoods, where residents often don't have as much access

to literature。

Nobody really knows where the idea for the public shelves

originally stems from. What's certain is it's a popular grass-roots

movement that's catching on — even abroad。

Just a few weeks ago, Aubermann said he was contacted by

a Portuguese NGO that asked him for help with opening public

book shelves in poor rural areas of Mozambique。

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