Multnomah County Library, which serves the Portland, Ore., region, recently created a #Book4Tat campaign, inviting "those of a literary bent" to post their tattoos on the library's Twitter account. KATU2 reported that library assistant Steve Roskoski "said he and his fellow librarians (some with their own tattoos) came up with the idea to match readers with books based on their tats. It's Portland, after all."
"Book recommending and finding people good reads is something we do every day here at the Multnomah County Library," Roskoski said. "Social media is a great way to interact with those people--and we've seen a great response. We had over 150 awesome tattoos sent in.... There were so many interesting and unusual tattoos. Some things [were] really simple, like a number of people actually had a semi-colon and that was the only thing we had to go on."