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At the opening event for the Gap Filler bookfridge, one of the organisers registers donated books with Bookcrossing.com, while volunteers start filling the fridge with books.

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At the opening event for the Gap Filler bookfridge, one of the organisers registers donated books with Bookcrossing.com, while volunteers start filling the fridge with books.

Canterbury Earthquake September 2010

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I didn't even know the bookshelf had fallen on me till later that morning. When I saw the bookcase and books all over the bed, I was glad to be only 5 foot tall or my legs would have been crushed by sturdy books like 'A day in the life of the Soviet Union' and some thumping big art books, or even the cheapo board bookcase with half its shelves...

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A woman browsing the books in the Gap Filler bookfridge on its opening day.

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Books are being removed from the Central Library".

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Guy Field shelving books in the new Central Library Peterborough".

Photograph by Paul Corliss 1824

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A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Corner of Kilmore and Barbadoes Streets. Gap Filler books in fridge".

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A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Corner of Kilmore and Barbadoes Streets. Gap Filler books in fridge".

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A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Corner of Kilmore and Barbadoes Streets. Gap Filler books in fridge".

Jennifer Middendorf's Blog 24/07/2011: Being brave, and books in a fridge

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An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 24 July 2011 entitled, "Being brave, and books in a fridge".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Central Library with the books now cleared off the floor in this part".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Central Library with the books now cleared off the floor in this part".

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Seen through the cordon fence, a wine bottle still sits on a table in the emptied-out Scorpio Books.

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Books on the floor of the Sumner Library, seen through the front window".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Books on the floor of the Sumner Library, seen through the front window".

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Recipe books fallen off a shelf in a house in Burnside. There was no other damage to the house.

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Fallen bookshelf and scattered books in a postgrad common room in the Locke Building at the University of Canterbury.

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Books on the floor of the Central Christchurch City Library, viewed through the window on Gloucester Street".

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The ground floor of the Central Library on Gloucester Street. Books have fallen off the shelves and are in piles in the aisles.

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A photograph of a sign questioning the future of Christchurch. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Corner of Kilmore and Barbadoes Streets. Gap Filler books in fridge".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A family walking past Scorpio Books (now in Cashel Mall Re:Start) soon after the cordon opened up this piece of Hereford Street".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking through the Gloucester Street window of the Central Christchurch City Library".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking through the Gloucester Street window of the Central Christchurch City Library".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking through the Gloucester Street window of the Central Christchurch City Library".

Redwood Post quake

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Delivering the books. Photos taken in Redwood Library on April 8 following the February 22 earthquake. File reference: CCL-2011-04-08-Redwood-After-The-Earthquake-IMG_0436 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries

Redwood Post quake

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Delivering the books. Photos taken in Redwood Library on April 8 following the February 22 earthquake. File reference: CCL-2011-04-08-Redwood-After-The-Earthquake-IMG_0437 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Book Warehouse, ground floor, 232 Cashel Street".

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Central Library Peterborough was opened to provide a place for library services in the central city. It is stocked with the books that were on circulation when the earthquake happened, as the majority of the Central Library book stock is still inaccessible in the Gloucester Street building".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Painted advertising which was revealed when the Grumpy Mole was demolished on the Corner of Cashel and Manchester Streets. The text says 'Printer, lithographer, bookbinder, manufacturer of paper bags, tea packets and cardboard boxes. NZ Agent for making Stevenson's patent leatherboard boxes. Paper merchants, wholesale stationer, account books, Crown printing office'".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Ground floor, IRD building. This book market is almost undisturbed while next door, the CTV building collapsed. Taken through the Cashel Street window".