Word on the street

By Roger Stephenson Roger Stephenson 2005-10-31T00:00:00

David Adjaye’s new Idea Store in Whitechapel wants to make borrowing a book as easy as buying a bag of chips. Does it work? Photographs: Edmund Sumner/view

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