There are few things more frustrating than sitting on a bus without anything to read.

Now a city café has come up with a clever solution; Bus Stop Coffee at 11 St. Patricks Quay now invites customers to take a book or leave a book when they drop in to collect their latte.

Conveniently located across the road from the Aircoach stop, the café is the travellers’ last hope for a caffeine injection before Dublin, now they’ll even send you off with some entertainment for the journey.

They say: “Every journey needs a good book, that’s why today we officially opened Bus Stop Books, our little travel library. Take a book, leave a book or just return it after your trip and give us your review.”

With handy salad pots, tasty sandwiches, snacks for the road and a mean dark chocolate mocha and almond croissant, Bus Stop Coffee opens at 6am from Monday to Sunday.

They close at 6pm, so you can offload any books you’re finished with on the way home too.