Bookshelf of the Week: Libreria San Gines, Madrid

Oddly, given my reverence towards books, I’m always drawn towards bookshelves which can found outdoors, completely open to the elements. I’ve already featured the Honesty Bookshop at Hay-on-Wye, and the Brattle Bookshop in Boston, whose bookshelves are definitely open to the elements. And I’ve also featured a bookshop in Geneva where there’s a sliver of outdoor bookshelving to be found. So for everyone’s delight and delectation (or more accurately my own if I’m being completely honest), I present another for this week’s offering.

This is a shot taken by yennyo of the exterior bookshelves adorning the outer walls of the Libreria San Gines book shop in Madrid Spain. Don’t you just love ‘em? Yeah I know there’s the potential for ‘liquid danger’ in the form of rain. But who could resist walking past this side street without stopping for a browse of the bookshelves? Go on try it. Here’s the shop in Google Street View. See if you don’t walk by and ignore it (and while you’re at it don’t forgot to check out the ‘user photos’ in Google Maps too, because some of them show the Libreria San Gines in various states of ‘dress’).

Joking aside though, this is a gorgeous shot, of what looks to be a gorgeous book shop. My thanks to yennyo for sharing it, and for giving me another external bookshelf to drool over.

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