The road to reader or rail recogniser?

The library may well have once been the location of learning for many, but with the likes of video games and the internet vying for the average Tokyo teen’s time, any reason to bother with books is rapidly receding, resulting in increasingly radical attempts to reel in reticent readers.

But, while bullet train buildings bulging with books may well recruit a reasonable number of people to the unrivalled pleasures of reading,

it’s probably more than likely that such a locomotive-based library will instead turn these tots into timetable toting train otaku,

rather than testing tome tacklers.