La Libre Café is part of a new group of reading cafés that are challenging the burgeoning computer and mobile culture in cafés in Madrid and elsewhere. The delightfully 1960s-style café serves a wide range of teas, coffees, snacks, and pastries, and prides itself on its calm and relaxed atmosphere, with Wi-Fi and books in Spanish, English, French and German. As this café encourages conversation among visitors, it is a cute little establishment that does its part to redraw the inherited distinction between relaxation and the rest of modern life.