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Mar 15 2005 8 Comments

Lavatory literature

Whether the unusual nature of this publication is in relation to its literary worth hasn’t been disclosed, but Sanseido Books is selling a summary of the Architectural Body by Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins on toilet paper.

toilet paper book

For any bathroom tissue aficionados out there, each roll is 30-metres long, and thankfully double-layered. However cost wise this toilet tract doesn’t come cheap, as each roll retails at 350 yen (almost 2 pound). But for the combination of reading matter, and the, erm, ability to remove matter, it’s arguably not a bad price.

Categorized: Books, Odd

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  1. Olivia says

    3/16/2005 at 3:08 am

    Some kind of innovation for the lame? 😉

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  2. dzogo says

    3/16/2005 at 4:04 am

    Love the girl’s teeth. Quite typical of Japanese women!

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  3. Kazumi says

    3/16/2005 at 5:28 pm

    At least that would explain why he spends nearly an hour sitting in there…

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  4. Nacente says

    3/16/2005 at 7:55 pm

    Now they can listen listen to the music, while reading….that’s culture!

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  5. melina says

    3/17/2005 at 3:38 am

    do they offer these with the “spray -n- wash” toilets complimentary?

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  6. Jarkko says

    3/17/2005 at 3:43 pm

    Hahaa! This is great news! My special someone likes to read to take her mind out of the actual process. Almost every day I see a short play of frantic magazine suffling while she is trying to decide what to read this time. It would be a great relief for her to be provided some convenient reading at public toilets.

    By the way, I think that this is wonderful media for advertising. I would like to see an ad from radical fashion magazine, printing a roll or two of “high fashion, low fashion” -slogan ads. McDonalds could use “Im loving it” at their in-restaurant toilets. 😀

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  7. Toni says

    3/19/2005 at 7:41 pm

    I dunno. Wouldn’t ink get on your butt?

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  8. Jarkko says

    3/24/2005 at 9:05 pm

    Thank God it IS double-layered.

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