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The text focuses on the subject of human library. The first part of the article analyses literary realisations of this motif in the works of such writers as: Ray Bradbury, Jorge Luis Borges, Thomas Wharton, and Walter Moers. Next, the author focuses on human libraries existing in our reality. Finally, those two aspects of the discussed phenomenon are confronted with each other to show how capacious the terms ‘book’ and ‘library’ have become.