The hotel offers a reading room with a rich assortment of books, a place for gathering and meeting others, with guides to the city and volumes on local food and drink, novels, great classics, and photographic magazines, all available to guests wishing to immerse themselves in art and literature.

Phi Hotel Bologna is a Bookcrossing Point, a place where books can be shared and exchanged free of charge, which encourages the spread of knowledge and enables those who use it to leave something of themselves in Bologna.