Book Project

Found a Book?

You made it! Welcome to the London Book Project online. If you're reading this you've been lucky enough to pick up one of our books currently circulating on the Underground.

The Book London Project

Sick and tired of the freesheets? Numbed by rubbish reporting? So are we. The London Book Project is a free book exchange on a massive scale. Using the London Underground as a high speed distribution network, we aim to bring real literature to London's commuters. Scrap the freesheets - read a free book instead! Over the next two weeks we'll be distributing thousands of second hand books across the tube and we want YOU to get involved. If you see one of our books, please pick it up! Then read it and

To Be Continued

Just like the end-of-season episode of your favourite TV programme that leaves you in the middle of the action, the BookProject is going away for a while but will pick up where we left off later this year.

Expect some big changes, as well as more free books - coming soon to a Tube near you!

Commuters Opine about the London Book Project


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Book Project Goes Live on EC1FM


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Campaign Reactions

Listen to what London commuters have to say about the London Book Project.

All in all, we've had some great reactions from the public. Confused looks; people reminding our distributors that they've forgotten their books as they leave Tube carriages; people taking FREE BOOKS instead of FREE PAPERS and lots more besides...

About the London Book Project (LBP)

 The London Book Project is a free book exchange on a massive scale. Using the London Underground as a high speed distribution network, we aim to bring real literature to London's commuters. Scrap the freesheets - read a free book instead!

Over the next two weeks we'll be distributing thousands of second hand books across the tube and we want YOU to get involved. If you see one of our books, please pick it up! Then read it and replace with any book of your choice. Let's make the tube a giant, free library!

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