Public street-bookshelves in Berlin made from hollow logs

"Book Forest" is an outdoor, public bookcase in Berlin, designed to allow BookCrossing users to drop books they're done with so that others can take them in and read them. The "forest" is made from hollowed out logs with protective clear doors.

Within the program ‚Research for Sustainable Forestry’ promoted by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research the cross section project ‘Bi-FONA-Wald’ is carried out by the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training. It takes place in Berlin/Brandenburg. The Book Forest is part of the overall project ‚Modellregion Berliner Wald und Holz’.
The Book Forest contributes to sustainable vocational education and deals with the value chain forest-wood-book. It was developed and realised by BAUFACHFRAU Berlin e.V. as an interdisciplinary, project orientated cooperation of apprentices of forestry, carpentry, cabinetmaking, media design, printing and bookselling.

Book Forest (via Bookshelf)

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http://www.facebook.com/people/Ender-Wiggin/100000885624281 Ender Wiggin

This is awesome. i wish people in america still read, so that i could do something like this with my dead tree collection.
- Ted Johnson
  
  I wish people in America still capitalized.
  
  Where I live, there’s a thriving economy of used books at a local bookstore. They won’t take anything, but for the books they won’t take, there’s the nonprofit thrift store.
  
  This thing with the hollowed-out trees is a marketing gimmick — an interesting interdisciplinary marketing gimmick — but it’s not as though they’ve cured a disease.
- http://twitter.com/mphanson2 Megan Hanson
  
  Check out http://www.littlefreelibrary.org!
timquinn

just out of frame is the free firewood rack made from old books.
BombBlastLightingWaltz

No need for listing as the books are already logged. Ty, ty, tyvm.
zombiebob

Fucking. Awesome.
zombiebob

So is it a momento mori for logs?
http://twitter.com/roelsiebrand Roel Siebrand

Them Berliners. Such an awesome place.
http://lemoutan.blogspot.com/ Lemoutan

Must annoy the hell out of content owners who want to be paid for every new reading. Expect prosecutions and injunctions soon. Or am I barking up the wrong tree?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=558392998 Christian Schilter

Well thanks, now all I can think of is the delicious cake in the café right next to it.
- show me
  
  As a bonus, there are elves inside it baking cookies.
http://www.facebook.com/jwin74 Jon Winchester

Given that they’re quintillions of euros in debt, I think Berliners need to cut back on frivolities like hollow-tree book shelf and implement some austerity measures.
Shelagh Pepper

I tried a similar book exchange about 25 years ago at a local university. We started with several hundred books. After about 2 weeks, there were no books left.
Jorpho

Acht, the books are already spilling out into the street. It’s going to get messy, and then it’s just going to get messier.
http://germanwotd.com Amelia_G

Baufachfrau e.V.! In addition to such a poetically rhyming name, their website says they’re an education nonprofit for women construction workers or women builders. “Ideentischlerei” = “ideas cabinet making” or “ideas joinery,” but the word for cabinetmaker literally means “tabler” (table maker) so it sounds like bringing ideas to the table as well. Awesome.
http://twitter.com/Cluisanna Cluisanna

As far as I can see, it says on the website that the project went on from 2006 to 2008, so this is quite old, sadly.