Moscow encourages reading in its metro stations with a virtual library accessible with QR

The Moscow Metro has become a center of culture that allows its travelers to read for free the books of russian classics. To this end,, in its stations have been installed posters containing QR codes. When the user scans them from the mobile or tablet, they access a virtual library from where the work is downloaded.

Moscow Metro stations have become virtual libraries that allow travelers to read as they arrive at their destination. This is possible thanks to QR codes.

In the underground of the Muscovite transport have been arranged around 150 small posters in the form of a bookshelf that incorporate QR codes on the backs of the simulated books. When travelers scan them from their mobile or tablet they enter a digital library that stores more than a hundred books written by Russian classics such as Chekhov, Pushkin, Bulgakov, Dostoevsky or Gogol; and for free you can download them.

The project is in the testing phase but its developers believe that the full version of this virtual library will be available before the end of the year for the 2.490 millions of passengers travelling by metro every year.

This is an initiative that already has a similar precedent implemented in 700 of buses, trams and trolleybuses of the city.

On the other hand, in the underground itself there have already been other implementations where culture was the protagonist such as the installation of miniature art galleries on subway trains. And as an added value to all this it is expected that by the end of the year the installation of the free WiFi infrastructure in all the wagons will be finished.