Biblio-Mat is a vending machine, designed by Craig Small for a Toronto book shop, which dispenses a random used tome for $2 each.

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Book-Vending Machine Dispenses Suspense Insert $2 into the Biblio-Mat, and customers get a mystery, a biography, historical fiction — or a dud. The owner of a bookstore in Toronto came up with ...

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Let me introduce you to Byredo Bibliothèque, a candle-turned-perfume that evokes the scent of old books. Disney. I'm not ashamed to say I've stuck my nose in the spine of quite a few library books.

Or you could walk up to a Biblio-Mat vending machine and wisely spend $2 on a book that will enrich your mind and soul. The Biblio-Mat is installed at the Monkey's Paw used and antiquarian ...

The general design of the Biblio-Mat was made to match the vintage feel of The Monkey’s Paw, which can be seen from the colors and lettering used on the machine to the second-hand books that ...

This column began back on March 4, 1987 and celebrated two decades of weekly reviews this year. We were graced with an Annie award as well, for which we are grateful. Most gratifying, of course, ar… ...

Raconteur Fran Lebowitz notes that “success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.” Perhaps best known for her first books, “Metropolitan Life” and “Social Studies,” the ...

Daunt Books. We had a big debate about whether, since it seems to be spawning more heads than a Hydra, it was still an independent. We decided it was, which is a good thing because the original ...

(The front of the cabinet became the back of the Biblio-Mat.) The books are loaded into columns, which rise when money is inserted, until the top book, resting at a 45-degree angle, falls.

The tale of Clapham Books is one of triumph over adversity. In 2006, a team of plucky bibliophiles bought a failing bookshop on the site of the current store, changed its name, spruced it up and ...