
Maybe it's the 24-hour access to 25 book titles or the bizarrely cheap price, but I'm sold on French publisher Maxi-Livres'
book vending machines. For an across-the-board $2.45 per book fee, get titles ranging from Baudelaire's
Les Fleurs du Mal (
The Flowers of Evil) and
Alice in Wonderland to verb-conjugation dictionaries and a couscous cookbook.
"We knew that French bibliophiles would be horrified to see their books falling into a trough like candy or soda," says the publishing house's president, Xavier Chambon. "So we installed a mechanical arm that grabs the book and delivers it safely."
(Thanks,
Giselle.)
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