Travel books ‘flying off’ library shelves for post-Covid holidays

Lorcan Browne, five, and nine-year-old Natasha Vorchykhina, pictured at Ardkeen Library in Waterford City, join the nationwide initiative encouraging everyone to ‘squeeze in a read’ on Ireland Reads Day today. (Patrick Browne/PA)

Travel books are flying off library shelves as holiday readers plan their post-Covid getaway.

Librarians say overseas guides are the big page-turners since libraries re-opened to the public, as Ireland Reads Day encourages adults and children across the country to ‘squeeze in a read’.