Bookporn

Travel notes in the spirit of eros libros. This page indexes all my bookporn, produced between 2007-2011, when I was an itinerant PhD student and found many occasions to trespass in libraries, bookstores and book-museums across the world, often wielding a stealthy camera. Asterisks denote favourites! — though, like Calvino’s cities, or like past lovers, I have loved each these rooms of books uniquely, as much as I now love them as markers of the tangled passage I have made through space and time.

1. Haddon Library, Cambridge
2. Pembroke Library, Cambridge
3. Wren Library, Cambridge
4. Charing Cross Road, London
5. Unknown bookstore, Brighton
6. Lincoln’s Inn, London
7. Historical edition: Qur’an (c. 1700) and Korean Tripitaka (c. 1200)
8. Complete works of Massinger
9. King’s College Library, Cambridge
10. Thai strip-style books
11. Seeley Library, Cambridge
12. * Gonville & Caius Library, Cambridge
13. Bauhaus Café, Seattle 
14. * Elliot Bay Books, Seattle
15. * Unknown bookstore, San Francisco
16. * Seattle Public Library, Seattle
17. National Palace Museum, Taipei
18. Home, Kuala Lumpur
19. * St John’s College Library, Cambridge (1)
20. St John’s College Library, Cambridge (2)
21. Clare College Library, Cambridge
22. * The University Library, Cambridge
23. Qur’ans at the V&A, London
24. SOAS Brunei Gallery, London
25. * Shakespeare & Co., Paris
26. Unknown bookstore, Paris
27. Musée Guimet, Paris
28. * The Seminary Co-op Bookstore, Chicago
29. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library
30. New York Public Library, New York
31. Chicago Public Library, Chicago
32. * Westsider Books, New York
33. * Kroch Library, Cornell, Ithaca
34. * Streetside bookstore, Estonia
35. * Lankester Antiques & Books, Saffron Walden
36. Asian Civilizations Museum, Singapore
37. National Library of Singapore, Singapore
38. Suntec City Food Court, Singapore
39. * Ethnic Travel Insight into Vietnam Bookstore, Hanoi 
40. Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
41. * Books from Heaven
42. New Liberal Arts
43. * Heffers, Cambridge
44. Last Folio exhibition, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
45. * The “Pubic Triangle”, Edinburgh

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