Hi everyone~! ~^-^~
Today was one of those typically different days...
You know, those days that just feel a little special and you keep feeling that way for the entire day.
Yep, that kind of day was today! ^^
The thing is, today I went to the Central Book House in Culemborg! ^-^ It was magical~ haha!... no seriously, it was really impressive! (=
The Central Book House is actually literally translated from Dutch, since there isn't really a translation available, due to the unique function.
As you probably know, books are made in a special factory, from which they'll be transported/sold to book shops. In many countries the book shops buy from those factories and the factories deliver straight to that book shop (or it's mother shop). In the Netherlands that process of transport and selection is organized in one central point in the country, which is the Central Book House.
In the CBH there are millions of books! As you can guess, it's huge! o_O
Unfortunately it's prohibited to take pictures, so I have no pics to share...
The CBH is actually a storage terrain that consists out of 5 buildings. I've been in the main storage room. There's this immense storage hall with a ground space the size of half a soccer field! It's also 30 meters high and operated with 5 automatic robots that store and take out pallets of books (fully automatic!) When there's an order the robots gather the pallets without anyone pushing any button!! That was really amazing to see! Those robots were massive and moved very quickly and precise.
Further more CBH had a whole system for efficiently packaging the different orders with books of different factories. Those machines kind of resembled rollercoasters with all the books sliding and rolling on the factory's treadmill... xD They yet had to do loopings! Haha, that was cheesy, I know ^^
I have one conclusion:
If you truly love books, you shouldn't work in the Central Book House... because when you're packing books all day, chances are big you have seen more than enough books to read one when you're off work! =] By the way, working at the CBH is (without being offence) quite killing for your mind, plus, it's physically tiring and you work in loud surroundings. So, not something for me, but it IS very nice to see where all the books I've bought have once been! x]
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*~Maria
