Biblio Mat Vending Machine

You can see how it works in this youtube video.

Biblio mat vending machine. It s called the biblio mat and it s pretty incredible. Bibliophiles with a taste for adventure and mystery will love the biblio mat located in monkey s paw a used bookstore in toronto canada the vintage looking vending machine dispenses random old. Canada has the world s first and possibly only randomizing antique book vending machine. With no window on the vending machine designed and built by toronto animator craig small what book the biblio mat spits out with each toonie is a mystery each time.

Biblio mat books which vary widely in size and subject matter cost two dollars. Even if vending machines like these aren t close to you seeing them in person would. The biblio mat is a random book dispenser built by craig small for the monkey s paw an idiosyncratic antiquarian bookshop in toronto. Owner of the monkey s paw stephen fowler a bookstore that specialises in lesser appreciated books came up with the idea for a vending machine as a way to move books that weren t selling calling it the biblio mat.

A toronto bookstore owner has taken vending machines to an exciting new level. It is the first device of its kind allowing curious bibliophiles to sample the excitement and mystery of antiquarian book hunting with a single 3 token. For only 2 the biblio mat will spit out an old and unusual book at random. Biblio mat books which vary widely in size and subject matter cost two dollars.

When the machine was first installed fowler originally stocked it with books that just weren t selling at all but eventually had to start buying books specifically for the biblio mat. Created by the store s owner stephen fowler and the juggernaut co founder craig small the biblio mat is a vending machine built from an old metal locker than dispenses random used books for. The machine was conceived as an artful alternative to the ubiquitous and often ignored discount sidewalk bin.