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Nov 26, 2017 05:15AM
Check out this new library in China
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That is pretty neat. One million books to read before you die.(P.S.- most of them are in Chinese)
one million books? Let's see That means I only need to live about 50,000 more years if I can keep reading as fast as I have been. That shouldn't be too hard... :P
Nice library though. I do wonder what the acoustics are like in there.
Wow! Visiting this library is now on my bucket list ^_^
I was trying to show someone at work pictures of the library, and it is already being debunked:According to the library's deputy director Liu Xiufeng, the library has other rooms in which there are traditional bookshelves (and are actually filled with books), but authorities didn't allow Binhai to put books in the main hall.
He told AFP that even the books that were on display in pictures were temporary, and soon had to be removed.
The main atrium is only approved for "circulation, sitting, reading and discussion," not book storage, authorities have decided.
"There's quite a big difference between the photos and reality," Jiang Xue, a medical student, was quoted by AFP as saying.
People on Chinese social media website Weibo weren't very impressed either.
"Binhai's library design is beautiful, but it's hard to tell which books are real and which are fake," said one user.
