While on a crowded boat in Bangkok this past week, I spotted a woman clutching a book to her chest. She was a fellow traveler like me, and had a small Lonely Planet Bangkok Encounter guide. I know that was the book from what I could see from the obscured title. It was not the title that caught my eye, but the barcode obscuring it.

As she walked past I tried to read the name of the city but couldn’t but did manage to make out the words “public library” to verify it was indeed a library book. Yet another example of the roles Libraries play in peoples lives.