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Book swaps at London tube and train stations 'a good idea' says Johnson
13 Dec 2011
Book swaps and book shares could be set up at tube and train stations across London in time for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Boris Johnson has agreed to look into the possibility of establishing a network of book swaps in the capital's 700 tube and train stations, in response to an idea put forward by Chris Hilson, a political researcher at the London School of Economics, who has already set up a pilot scheme for communal book sharing in his local station, West Ealing.
Gilson described the shame of so many books ending up in landfill each year, as he highlighted the benefits to both literacy and community engagement of book swapping and sharing.
Read the full story at the Guardian.
