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Print your own books at the BK Public Library

by | 3.9.12 | 1 Comment

The finished product coming out of the printing machine. Still via Daily News video.

Yes, that’s right, you can now take that great manifesto that’s sitting on your computer that no publishing house wants to buy to the library and print it your own damn self. On Wednesday, the Grand Army Plaza branch of the Brooklyn Public Library installed the Espresso Book Machine, a do-dad that busts out your own work in five minutes for about $149, according to The Daily News. You can also print some books that you can’t find in the library. But does it print Kindles?

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  • Joe Almond

    Good Magazine covered this device! http://www.good.is/post/the-personal-press/



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