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Entitled to humour

02 Tuesday Mar 2021

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, art, Calgary, Canada, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban

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Entitled to humour

Some interesting and … uh … provocative alternative titles to some classic works is this display outside a southwest Calgary bookstore/café.

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Cheerio

08 Thursday Oct 2020

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Cheerio

One of the many community free libraries/book exchanges dotting the city of Calgary.

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Staging for a bookstore

28 Tuesday Jul 2020

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban

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The Next Page

Looking in through the front window of a bookstore/coffee shop in Calgary’s Inglewood neighbourhood.

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Just for kids

14 Tuesday May 2019

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, art, Calgary, Canada, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban

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Just for kids, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

One of the plethora of free lending library that dot the city of Calgary. This one at the Hillhurst-Sunnyside Community Association was seen last month, with the remnants of a spring snowstorm on the ground.

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Biblio-botany

16 Sunday Dec 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, England, fun, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Bath, England, United Kingdon

This giant plant-based book was spotted at the Parade Gardens in Bath, England, in May 2018.

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Encyclopedia Britannica, Ninth Edition

27 Wednesday Jun 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in Cardiff, history, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel

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Cardiff, Wales, U.K.

Some of the old books on display as part of the historical exhibit in the residence at Cardiff Castle. (Google tells me the Ninth Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica was published in 1889.)

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Word on the Water

24 Thursday May 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in London, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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London, England, U.K.

A floating book store on The Regent’s Canal in London.

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Book and media return

06 Tuesday Mar 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in Canada, montreal, photography, photowalk, photowalking, Quebec, random, Travel, urban, video

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In the lobby/atrium of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec in Montreal.

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Living in all ages

06 Friday Oct 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in Los Angeles, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Spotted above on the of the entrances to the Los Angeles Public Library in downtown L.A., from a visit to the city in 2013.

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