Thousands of Latvian book lovers formed a human paper chain across the capital city of Riga in 2014, to help transfer books from the nation’s old library to its new location (1.9 kilometres).
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Some 14,000 people, including children and the elderly, as well as the visitors from Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA, stood in temperatures of minus 12 degrees C to pass some 2,000 books hand to hand over a five hour period to a new library designed by Latvian-born U.S. architect Gunnar Birkerts.
The remainder of the library's more than 4 million books and printed items will be moved by more conventional means.
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