The helpful staff at NYC's McNally Jackson bookstore have put together this handy guide to napping with a book. Among the tips, "The ideal book for booknapping may be a mass market format title, particularly those full of alien civilizations and pat endings." Add a hammock, and you've got summer at its best.--David E

Following the writing school advice "Show it, don't tell it," the Kansas City public library makes itself known to citizens with a wall of books along its main facade.There was something similar done during construction of a library in Cardiff, Wales, but it seems to have been only temporary.--David E