Are you a bookworm?

The Mazarine Library, Paris

Library of Melk Abby, Austria

St Gallen, Switzerland

Aren't these European libraries exquisite?

I can easily spend hours reading in these beautiful rooms

"The accumulation of books in these great historical libraries is beyond the imagination of any book lover", is how the photographer Ahmet Ertug describes these 'palaces of enlightenment.'

Images 2-4: Temples of Knowledge, Photography by Ahmet Ertug as seen in Interiors magazine

Images 1&5: Dust Jacket Attic

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