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Re: Little Free Library

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A great project for any student taking wood shop (our daughter built our LFL last semester).

i build lil free libraries and bird houses to get rid of my scrap wood. it's a fun limitation on the project that often makes ya think outside the box, so to speak.

Re: Little Free Library

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I've known Rick since 2001 and was around when he & Todd kicked this off. We've both since moved and it's been a pleasure watching this take off (inter)nationally. In parens b/c I can only verify the "national" part, personally. :) I look for them whenever I visit new places

Re: Little Free Library

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post #14

We have one at the local park nearby. A neighbor also has one in her front yard. It's a really neat concept!

There are about a half dozen around my neighborhood. My daughter and I constantly move books in and out of them to keep them fresh on our walks.

Sometimes they’re great; but, oftentimes I find them to be utterly and completely devoid of anything interesting or different. Almost every single one has some sort of religious spam in it.

Re: Little Free Library

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I've known Rick since 2001 and was around when he & Todd kicked this off. We've both since moved and it's been a pleasure watching this take off (inter)nationally. In parens b/c I can only verify the "national" part, personally. :) I look for them whenever I visit new places

I've seen several book boxes in Brisbane, Australia, but neither one that I know the location of has been registered as a little free library.

Re: Little Free Library

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post #14

We have one at the local park nearby. A neighbor also has one in her front yard. It's a really neat concept!

There are about a half dozen around my neighborhood. My daughter and I constantly move books in and out of them to keep them fresh on our walks. Sometimes they’re great; but, oftentimes I find them to be utterly and completely devoid of anything interesting or different. Almost every single one has some sort of religious spam in it.

I find that they're almost always a perfect cross-section of the local thrift store's books - including the absolutely inordinate number of cookbooks.

Re: Little Free Library

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I build these and have one at my house.

Its been interesting.

Had some teenagers try to blow it up with fireworks.

Have to constantly remove proselytizing, mostly christian, pamphlets from it.

Had to buy a stamp https://littlefreelibrary.myshopify.com/products/self-inking... so drug addicts don't clear it out sell the books to buy smack.

Other than hat its been mostly self sustaining.

Re: Little Free Library

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post #11
post #6

A great project for any student taking wood shop (our daughter built our LFL last semester).

i build lil free libraries and bird houses to get rid of my scrap wood. it's a fun limitation on the project that often makes ya think outside the box, so to speak.

Most of the ones around here are pretty obviously built from the same plan, but the ones that are kit-bashed from random materials are always the most interesting.
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