Best library

Admont Abbey (Stift Admont) is a foundation of the Benedictines on the River Enns in the town of Admont in Austria and is the oldest remaining monastery in Styria. It contains the largest monastic library in the world and a long-established scientific collection, and is known for its Baroque architecture and collections of art and manuscripts.

Calling all bookworms.

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The pay phone libraries are similar to Portland's collection of book boxes where passers-by can take a book, leave a book, or just stop to browse the collections of titles.

Harry Potter

Books tend to be rectilinear. But that doesn’t mean their repositories have to be. For this library in Kumamoto, Japan, design director Kazunobu Nakamura conceived a system of curved shelves to evoke the Kikuchi River, which runs through the city, located on the island of Kyushu. The nearly 330 linear feet of bookcases—composed of steel columns supporting shelves of pale Japanese ash finished with clear urethane—wind through the 18,300-square-foot space, dividing it into discrete nooks.

What makes the Plymouth Meeting Barnes and Noble one of the best bookstores in the area?

Image 15 of 23 from gallery of Lishin Elementary School Library / TALI DESIGN. Photograph by Hey! Cheese