Mobile library finds way into Beijing’s subway

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How do you normally spend your time on the subway? Listen to music? Read books? What about listening to books?

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Well, if you are taking the Beijing Subway Line 4 to and back from work each day, you may want to try its "mobile audio library," where you could have a listen to all the books neatly “placed” there on the bookshelves.

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After using a phone to scan the QR code on the side, commuters will be directed to an application called “Dedao” and get a chance to download and listen to nearly a thousand audio books.

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This is a collaboration between the application and the Beijing Subway, which aims to “bring libraries into the daily lives of ordinary people and to make reading and knowledge flow.”

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The Beijing Subway Line 4 is known as the "cultural line," as it always hold events like this to engage people in cultural activities while moving at the fast pace of city life.