Here's one way to advertise your bookstore

Catching up on your reading?

Culling some penny books?

Want a bit of light summer reading?

Thanks to Wystan Stevens for sending me this photo and thanks to Jason Weaver for posting it on Flickr.

The pile of books is intended to be recognized as a sculpture (representing a human leg?). It was erected on the main street of Linz, Austria, by a bookstore called "Thalia" during a festival this spring celebrating the city's nomination as a cultural center.

Here are some other views:

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=linz+book&s=rec
http://www.flickr.com/photos/da-fi/878543147/in/photostream/

Here is the pile under construction, using a boom platform:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/taibo/492492191/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/taibo/492492755/in/photostream/

And another random photo, from a distance:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tripsofsidney/614513000/