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"Bibliothèques Sans Frontières et Galimaties présentent MAP-MIE, un projet de cartographie participative innovant à destination de jeunes mineurs isolés étrangers (MIE). De la ballade urbaine, au dessin et à la carte en ligne, venez découvrir différentes manières de voir et de raconter la ville."

"Chinese subway riders using Shanghai's Metro Line 2 will soon have their very own unofficial library. Pick up a book at one station, drop it off at any other. Special bookshelves are installed at the metro stations, containing rows books for the taking. There's no registration necessary, and no fee; readers are simply encouraged to make a small charitable donation when taking a book."

"Beijing commuters spend their time similarly to us - their faces are firmly planted in their phone screen. Instead of catching up on the day's verbal vomit from various social media sites however, Beijing Metro Transportation Railway (MTR) and the National Library have enabled people to read esteemed novels on the go. By scanning QR-codes placed in the trains, the public can borrow e-books and read them on their devices."

"Bucharest subway commuters can scan QR codes from the book spines to download them to their smartphones. Vodafone Romania, in collaboration with a publishing house Humanitas, launched an ambient advertising campaign, which is simply fantastic. A Victoria Square metro station was turned into… a digital library."