This is the front of my local library.

gibbon1993 · 6 months

Kansas City for anyone that's wondering. Awesome idea.

ckallas2 · 6 months

What is this? A library for giants?

egotrip · 6 months

This has been frontpaged before. So I will repeat myself. As a Kansas Citian, I go to this library frequently and there are a couple of things you should know.

a. This is NOT the library. This is the parking garage.

b. Although the parking garage is awesome, the actual library itself is 100 times cooler. This is the outside view of the actual library. This is the chess set on the roof. This is the vault with the small movie theater inside. And this is where all the books are.

c. I'd also like to note that this is definitely not the coolest thing in KCMO. Kansas City (Missouri) is awesome, yet for some reason isn't recognized nationally for its awesomeness. Come see for yourself sometime.

Stee_B · 6 months

TIL There is a lot more to Charlotte's Web than previously thought.

conjarlo · 6 months

That's not the library, it's the libraries parking garage.

robward · 6 months

TIL Romeo & Juliet is as long as A Tale of Two Cities.

DrunkmanDoodoo · 6 months

The trashcans should be made to look like Twilight books.

boiledpotato · 6 months

They did the same thing to Cardiff Library in South Wales a while ago.

Here and here

MaxChaplin · 6 months

I guess your local mall is shaped like a shopping bag full of groceries and the local McDonald's is shaped like a hamburger.

luckycypher · 6 months

Dude what. My library looks like a boring ass municipal building. I'd want to go there every day!

SpikedIt · 6 months

Man, what version of Charlotte's Web did I read?

Brawny661 · 6 months

Lord of the Rings used the movie font...

heliosdiem · 6 months

why aren't they in alphabetical order by author

chb66 · 6 months

Guy: "Hey guys, check out this cool design my local library put up!"

/r/Books: "LOL THEY MADE THEM ALL THE SAME THICKNESS?!?! SOME DESIGN!!!!!"

I hate this place sometimes...

jazzychill17 · 6 months

Here's the other half. It spans a whole city block.

Petra-Arkanian · 6 months

You're full of crap, OP. That is the parking garage, not the library.

deadchileanpoet · 6 months

my favorite library is reddit-famous? way to make our hometown look good, OP! :D it looks pretty awesome inside too. i spent hours working on my senior paper/thesis on pablo neruda and it was the perfect atmosphere for it.

Jill4ChrisRed · 6 months

I've seen one like that in London! :D

kj01a · 6 months

Almost none of those are to scale...

nathanielray · 6 months

Incorrect. That's a parking garage. The library is further down the street (to the right).

edu723 · 6 months

Lord of the Rings represented. Tip of my hat to Kansas City then.

tmg1325 · 6 months

False. That is the front of the parking lot.

snowball17 · 6 months

I took so many pictures of this when I was in Kansas City a few years back.

subsoniclight · 6 months

Romeo and Juliet could not possibly be that long unless you wrote like one word per page...

Neliamne · 6 months

Well, sure, but how on earth do you read one of those giant books?

tomsk8er2000 · 6 months

"To Kill a Mockingbird" is so not that big of a book. JK. Supercool library

Bender_B · 6 months

What are these, books for giants!?

Verblocity · 6 months

This is clearly not a discussion about books! Why do we allow this kind of garbage make the front page?! This kind of frivolous nonsense is killing this subreddit! Won't somebody think of the children??

Kidding, obviously. Just making a point.

wtfchrlz · 6 months

I remember the first time I saw this post. Gas was <$1 back then. Those were simpler times I reckon.

theslowcloud · 6 months

Thank god it's not an old bank!

Greenman851 · 6 months

It's actually not the front of the library but the side of the parking garage. It's still awesome.

misfitx · 6 months

Invisible Man is a fucked up book.

Speis · 6 months

that's just kitsch.

mainzy · 6 months

I wish every library looked like this. Must have cost a fortune though

Clefaerie · 6 months

KANSAS CITY, REPRESENTTTT.

geraldfjord · 6 months

No it's not. It's a parking garage, you liar. You probably have never been there in your life.

EatingSteak · 6 months

So where's Twilight and Harry Potter? Sheesh, all these behind-the-times books.

/s

Awesome idea. Knew there had to be something worth seeing in Kansas.

Abandcalledmetallica · 6 months

I just want to move there.

sjmarotta · 6 months

That is really cool looking.

Am I the only one who loves/hates it when these kinds of things get the relative sizes of the books wrong?

Tmps3 · 6 months

cool, cool, coolcoolcool

StochasticOoze · 6 months

I've always liked this library (the pictures, I mean; never been there), but it bugs me a bit that the proportions of the books are way off. Some of them you could get away with, but there's no way to make Romeo and Juliet or Charlotte's Web as big as the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy. Not unless the former two are written in, like, a 72-point font.

Aioazech · 6 months

I think something similar was done to a library in Pennsylvania or Delaware. Trying to find it...

DnWeava · 6 months

correction: that is the front of the parking garage for our local library

[deleted] · 6 months

Every library needs to make a Mecca and worship this library.

morr1321 · 6 months

I like it, but those books are all varying thicknesses.

Stratocaster89 · 6 months

I wish books where still bound like that.

space_shark · 6 months

But one of my favorite things is reading in sunlight from a window!!

sparklingwaterll · 6 months

The invisible is not even close to that long of a book

zombiesatemygoldfish · 6 months

they are gonna be grumpy when they have to change the building to look like kindles and nooks and ipads

Finallythesound · 6 months

I've been to this library so many times. KCMO isn't so bad.

Vivalayeo · 6 months

Thats fucking incredible!

Spinning_Plates · 6 months

Kansas City, almost moved in the apartment complex right across the street! Awesome spot

ivanman · 6 months

My attention was immediately drawn to the LOTR book for some reason ಠ_ಠ

thewalkingjen · 6 months

Kansas City is awesome! I've been living in the area for about 8 years, and although I'm about to move away, kansas will always be my home. KC is much more of an up and coming city than people realize. More and more young people are moving to the area all the time and there is an awesome art and music scene.

HighHrothgnar · 6 months

That must be the unabridged version of Charlotte's Web

TheAnnoyingLife · 6 months

Your local library looks a million times cooler than my local library. :) Wanna trade?

[deleted] · 6 months

Damn it, I almost posted a picture of the library when I moved to KC a year ago. Time to wait 6 months and post again.

baine_of_existential · 6 months

Ironically, this library is exceptionally easy for the illiterate to identify.

Makes me proud of my hometown. KC has a rich art and literary history, and it's fitting that the library (or at least it's parking garage) in an architectural sense lives up to that.

lucidlife · 6 months

Is it bad that I get irritated at the disproportional widths of the books?

OneArmedNoodler · 6 months

Romeo and Juliet isn't a book... it's a play.

davespeed · 6 months

Any KC BBQ Cookbooks in that collection?

TeHMetronomE · 6 months

Let's go ahead and google "Apartments for rent in Kansas City, Missouri"

tnkted · 6 months

For fucks sake, how long do they think Romeo and Juliet is?! the version in my complete works of Shakespeare volume is 20 pages, TOPS.

LordEnigma · 6 months

Hey, that's the front of MY local library, too! :)

burningsensation · 6 months

I was there recently to audition for an orchestra (I'm a violinist) and I spent a good 2 hours in there. Y'all got a great library.

Book8 · 6 months

Who picked the books? I would have loved to been at those meetings.

icepickjones · 6 months

That's the same exact picture litreactor uses for certain articles.

Natten · 6 months

I wish you had taken this picture...

[deleted] · 6 months

Berks!

OvidNaso · 6 months

Warner Brothers is gonna sue the shit out of them.

srv656s · 6 months

My friend saw a crazy girl shoot and kill her ex boyfriend at the steps of that library. He watched the guy bleed out and die. There's a bullet hole at the bottom of one of the books. I've stuck my finger in it.

jlks · 6 months

I was going to say "jealous" until I saw this was in KC! Awesome!

my_cat_joe · 6 months

Is this a library for ants?!

kto7427 · 6 months

I live in the KC metro and always loved the look.

fordprefect48 · 6 months

I don't remember To Kill A Mockingbird being that thick

mikebuds · 6 months

We have a bar like this in Albuquerque. Our library is nowhere near as cool.

HerbertSnow · 6 months

No ebooks?

Daydreamer2010 · 6 months

Cool. Get into the library, one becomes the protagonist. I bet my imagination may run wild. :)

leculprit · 6 months

oh sweet baby jesus that is gorgeous

gunpowdersunset · 6 months

Pretty sure Romeo and Juliet is waaaaay shorter than Lord of the Rings.

bsonk · 6 months

Yeah, but you still have to live in Kansas City.

elizabethptp · 6 months

Why is this stock photo the only one I ever see of this place?

hobbitish · 6 months

You lucky bastard.

[deleted] · 6 months

There are a ton of homeless people there, though. They sleep all over the library.

scottyd1127 · 6 months

Very nice. Have I seen this post before though?

A_Wild_Missingno · 6 months

maybe it's just me, but this looks really, really stupid. I get that you want to make your library look cool and maybe clear that it's a library... Why not make it look like an ancient greek library or something?

This is like making a haircut building look like a giant haircut with an afro. Right next to a bunch of normal looking houses and skyscrapers or whatever. It'd fit if every building around looked like this, but it looks ridiculously out of place as is.

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