(8 Jan 2025) Why don’t you solve your problems with “word supplements”? A library here has started a “library pharmacy” event, in which books are lent out in a paper bag resembling a medicine envelope according to the “symptoms” of the user, such as “I want to get a supportive push.”
The bags are labeled with a description of the book’s expected “effects” after reading it, such as “gives you energy,” as if it were a prescription. Since the user does not know what kind of book is in the bag until she or he opens it, the person in charge of the Shimotsu Library in Kainan, Wakayama Prefecture, hopes that “users will have an unexpected encounter with a book of a different genre from the ones they are familiar with.”
The Mainichi has the story here.
