Tomorrow in the Wellington City Library there will be something different on the shelves - five people who will be books for the day.
The concept of people telling their personal stories as human books is an idea that comes from libraries in Scandanavia. It picks up on the notion that the essence of books is not paper and words, but people and that books enables us to learn about each other.
A mountainbike crash put Fabian Todd in a wheelchair three years ago. But a short chat with him will upend your notions of how someone in a wheelchair should behave.
"You might look at me in a wheelchair and think 'he doesn't do anything,'" Fabian Todd says. "But in fact I do extreme sports."
Visitors are allowed to speak to each book in the library for 30 minutes and it is a concept that may spread to other libraries.
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