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Realizing this, FAVL has experimented successfully with two initiatives. The first is the production of photo books, printed through fastpencil.com. The second is the establishment of a small media center in the town of Houndé, where a production team uses scanner and laser printers to produce pamphlet-style books. Both kinds of books are widely read in the community libraries of the region.enAttribution 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Articlehttp://conference.ifla.org/ifla80/open accessReadingbook productionAfricaphoto books