In this community bookstore with a library soul, books come and go, but the reading is continuous.

Nowadays, when bookstores that offer a wide variety of books in Spanish on their shelves can be counted on the fingers of one hand, those who want to read in their language have very few options except for Amazon.

That's why a group of South Philadelphians united by their love of books and Spanish have joined forces to create a bookstore with a difference, where reading comes first and is passed from hand to hand. 

Now the city's migrant community, mostly Mexican, has a space in Philibros where they can access books in Spanish when visiting local businesses.

"It is a community project and we decided to call it Philibros, firstly because we are in Philadelphia and because 'philis' is love, love for books (in Greek philos means love)," Edgar Ramírez, who proposed the project, which consists of taking boxes of books to shops for the public to take home and read, told EFE.

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