People formed a “live chain” to help bookstores with moving: Video
People lined up in two rows and passed books from hand to hand
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Residents of the small town of Chelsea in the United States formed a « live chain » to help a local bookstore to move more than nine thousand books to a new location.
To form in the action took 300 inhabitants, reports The Guardian.
The participants became two rows along the sidewalk in the city center. The « chain » began near the old location and ended near a new point where he decided to move the bookstore.
People took turns passing books to each other and put them on a shelf in a new alphabet shop. As it was – they showed on the store on Instagram.
”A lot of people wanted to help. It was a convenient way to move books. And yet – an opportunity for everyone to take part« , – said the owner of the store Michel Taplin.
According to her, the process lasted just less than two hours. The woman says to hire a transport company for packaging and unpacking thousands of books would take much more time.
The new bookstore is planned to open for the next two weeks.
A total of 5,300 people live in Chelsea. One of the residents, 32-year-old Kesi Fris, who also worked in this bookstore earlier, noted that it is a city where « people take care of each other. »
Frisco added that « Sunday book brigade reminded her of how much this community is« .
We will remind, we used to They shared Detailed statistics on reading books in Ukraine. According to its results, only 16% of Ukrainians read books daily.
