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Nothing sends the heart aflutter like a little (uncreepy) flattery on social media. But the sparks really flew when a U.K. woman tweeted out her fondness for the mind behind her local bookstore's Twitter handle.

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Independent Singapore bookstore BooksActually is determined to get more books in front of busy consumers. The bookstore, which focuses on fiction and literature, will install three book vending machines around the city of Singapore, two of which went live today. The bookstore joked on Instagram, "The Machines have Risen!!"

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The photos above are not from Singapore but similar machines from Sweden and California. Check out the actual machine in Singapore in the article above.

Named for the Charlie Chaplin movie (Martin was a film buff, and would soon move to New York to open a bookstore specializing in cinema), City Lights would grow quickly – both as bookstore and press – subsuming the adjacent flower shop, and then taking over the entire Artigues building on Columbus Avenue.

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