Over the weekend in Argentina, Buenos Aires held its annual Noche de las Librerias — Bookstores Night.
The city closes a main avenue, and places sofas and chairs where cars and trucks normally idle. People with books from the many bookstores lining the avenue, lounge in the seating and a festival replaces traffic.
Brian Byrnes reports.
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