Captivated by his phone, Ibrahim, a 33-year-old computer scientist, waits for his train in a Parisian station. Soon, he will be able to take advantage of this free time to discover new books. At the initiative of the Île-de-France Region in conjunction with the SNCF, around a hundred stations in the Ile-de-France region will be equipped with book boxes from the start of the school year, until March 2021. Appeared at the end of the 1990s in France, they have been spreading for about ten years. Passers-by are invited to drop off books and pick up others free of charge. A prospect that delights Ibrahim. “I know the concept, I've never used it, but here, it might interest me,” he explains.
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Bonnières-sur-Seine (Yvelines) is one of the fifteen stations to have experimented with the operation since 2018. “On the whole, users are playing along,” notes Samuel Bouré, the head of the municipal library, in charge of management of the book box. “Its use is quite intergenerational ,
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