Reading Between the Lanes, a "mobile shop bringing new and trendy books to rural communities," has launched in the Williston, N.Dak., region, KMOT reported. Owner Nicole Holdaway bought the previous Ward County Bookmobile last December and has made it her own.
"The opportunity to come into a bookstore that have books that I'm geared towards, I thought, 'There's got to be more people who are like me,' " she said, adding that reading has always been a huge part of her life, but growing up in rural towns, she had to buy her books online.
Reading Between the Lanes has helped remedy the situation. "It's a lot of fun to be able to talk books to like-minded people who are interested in the same things I'm interested in," said Holdaway. "There's nothing better than just kind of turning your brain off and getting lost in someone else's story,"
She plans to expand the mobile bookshop's range to surrounding towns in the near future.
Read Between the Lanes has already made fans of Tori Lee and Andrea Placher, who both work at the Williston Community Library. KMOT noted that when they found out about this mobile bookstore, they wanted to see it right away.
"The first time I was a customer on this mobile bookstore was out in Crosby, North Dakota. I've never been to Crosby before that. I literally went to Crosby just to be a customer that day," said Lee. "We are lucky enough to have a bookstore in Williston, but a lot of rural communities and Williams County specifically, don't have access to books like that."
Placher added that the community library can't always keep up with the newest books: "I always say, I wish I could have that library experience that everyone else has, but when you work there, it's not the same. It's work. When you come here, you're like 'Oh my gosh, this is so amazing, there's so many great things.' It's just a different experience."