Biblioburro

And on the opposite end of the technological spectrum of libraries from ebook management applications, check out this story on Luis Soriano, a teacher who travels by burro to Colombian villages, hauling books, dreams, and a sense of the larger world outside.

In a ritual repeated nearly every weekend for the past decade here in Colombia’s war-weary Caribbean hinterland, Luis Soriano gathered his two donkeys, Alfa and Beto, in front of his home on a recent Saturday afternoon.

Sweating already under the unforgiving sun, he strapped pouches with the word “Biblioburro” painted in blue letters to the donkeys’ backs and loaded them with an eclectic cargo of books destined for people living in the small villages beyond.

“Acclaimed Colombian Institution Has 4,800 Books and 10 Legs”