公共书架“漫步”德国街头

在德国的城市街角、广场和郊区超市，一排排公共书架正在走入人们的视野。你可以随意取阅或贡献书籍，无须登记、没有期限，也不限册数。这项免费换书活动的组织者表示，这是针对每一位喜爱阅读的人推出的活动，不限年龄和受教育程度；对每个人都是开放的。据悉，这些公共书架通常是由捐助基金资助、由当地志愿者组织维护的。每个书架约有200册图书，大约每六周完成一次图书轮换。目前，德国大部分公共书架都设在高档社区，组织者计划下一步让公共书架走进贫困社区，让那里的人享受相同的阅读机会。

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