COOL!

[electricland]

I'm not actually sure I can improve on what doombookshelves has to say about this:

This might actually be the coolest thing that I've ever seen.

For real. The coolest thing ever. Go and look at the pictures.

From the BBC:

The Camel Mobile Library was set up by the government-owned Kenya National Library Service to improve literacy rates in the north-east.

They're bookmobiles! But they're camels! Oh my god, cool-o-sity of this is overwhelming! (As is my complete and total overuse of exclamation points!)

I mean, seriously. That is just amazingly awesome.

Comments

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

That is the most amazing thing ever. Where can we send them money? Sponsor a female camel of breeding age?

[scapersuse.livejournal.com]

Hee! That is cool.

There's a precedent!

[swestrup]

I remember reading (in Isaac Asimov's "Book of Facts") that there was a rich bibiliophilic sultan who insisted on travelling with his entire library. He ended up with over 400 camels loaded with books. On each was a librarian tasked with knowing the contents of all the books on their camel, so when he wanted to find a particular passage, he could just call out what he wanted and one of his librarians could bring it immediately to hand.

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

wow, that's great! and it makes me wonder if there have been such caravans in the past.....thousands of years ago? i hope so. *g*

[lietya.livejournal.com]

Camel-mobiles! That is so neat!