A first of its kind place. You can leave a book and take one, or you can just borrow by registering your phone number there. You can also sit there, they got some nice benches. Better to go at night because there is less traffic at night.

‘Take a book, leave a book’ at this street library in KarachiThe street library, a project by the Commissioner Karachi Office, was opened by Sindh Chief Secretary Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah on December 25 to pay tribute to the country’s founding father Mohammad Ali Jinnah, on his 143rd birth anniversary.Noteworthy authors including Gazi Salahuddin, Rumana Husain and Muneeza Shamsie who attended the ceremony appreciated the initiative.“The idea behind Pakistan’s first street library is to promote the culture of reading so that our young generation will learn to value books,” Karachi commissioner Iftikhar Ali Shallwani told Gulf News. “We are reviving the habit of reading in this digital age because Google can give you information, but not knowledge,” he says.The street library has a collection of some 600 book in English and Urdu s — fiction and non-fiction — covering literature, science and other areas, with more to be added

Its an open knowledge source for everyone