Remember the book bike? Well, it was reported in Shelf Awareness earlier this week that bookstores as far apart as New Zealand and Boston, MA, are ready to take a page from Gabriel Levinson and are starting their own bike delivery service for books.

With the tag line, “Buy Green. Buy Local. By Bike. A new way to get your books faster, cheaper, and greener,” Harvard Bookstore announced their new two-wheeled book delivery service, appealing to the carbon-conscious readers in their area and boasting that “all in-stock orders placed for Cambridge and parts of Somerville and Allston will receive same- or next-day delivery.”

According to the Nelson Mail of New Zealand, the Page & Blackmore bookstore bought a bike they’re calling “Dobbin” (which is slang for workhorse) after they heard about Harvard Bookstore new two-wheeled addition.

Said Tim Blackmore about the new delivery innovation: “In a way we’ve gone backwards.”

Maybe. But the world could use a little more of this kind of backwards thinking. So long as we don’t see delivery riders doing much of this: