Vending Machine For Books

I heard about this on NPR. The Monkey's Paw, a eccentric Toronto bookstore, had hundreds of unwanted, unloved books and decided that people needed to broaden their reading to include books they'd never buy under normal circumstances. That's when Craig Small, creative director at Toronto post-production, design and animation studio flew into action and designed and built the Biblio-Mat, a book vending machine.

Pop in two bucks and after some grinding and whirring, an old telephone bell rings and out comes a book. Here's a video of the machine in action.