You might see if you can incorporate the data from https://littlefreelibrary.org/map/ as well
Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots
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Re: Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots
#12Most of the books in these community libraries are really crappy. I would assume that people:
a. Toss out books at home they don't like and bring them to these libraries
b. Take interesting books from the libraries, and leave the bad ones
Any ideas on how to improve that?
Re: Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots
#13Most of the books in these community libraries are really crappy. I would assume that people: a. Toss out books at home they don't like and bring them to these libraries b. Take interesting books from the libraries, and leave the bad ones Any ideas on how to improve that?
Free membership which accumulates points. These can be spent on books. Books are priced in points according to a metric (TBD). Bad books are 0 points. You can also get points by bringing in good books.
(It's like uh some kind of currency based barter dude ;) )
Re: Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots
#14Most of the books in these community libraries are really crappy. I would assume that people: a. Toss out books at home they don't like and bring them to these libraries b. Take interesting books from the libraries, and leave the bad ones Any ideas on how to improve that?
The vast majority of books are crap.
The little libraries have a cross-section of crap (verified by comparing what you find there with Goodwill / other sources).
If you want a good one you'd have to set up your own and aggressively curate it.
I feel something like 90% of all books purchased each year are bibles, cookbooks, or self-help.
Re: Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots
#15Most of the books in these community libraries are really crappy. I would assume that people: a. Toss out books at home they don't like and bring them to these libraries b. Take interesting books from the libraries, and leave the bad ones Any ideas on how to improve that?
The vast majority of books are crap. The little libraries have a cross-section of crap (verified by comparing what you find there with Goodwill / other sources). If you want a good one you'd have to set up your own and aggressively curate it. I feel something like 90% of all books purchased each year are bibles, cookbooks, or self-help.
> If you want a good one you'd have to set up your own and aggressively curate it
Expect a community library with only books on homotopy type theory and quantum computing soon!
Re: Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots
#16I have lots of old books that aren’t very good. That I can’t give away. What do I do with them? I have this strange taboo feeling about destroying books, even bad ones!
They're worthless, sadly. You can make a free library-type thing, but nobody wants them.
The best use is to glue the pages together (one set of about 20 with the cover, one set of 20 with the back cover, and then the rest). Put it on a bench/vice and use a jigsaw to cut open the center portion, and then glue the back section to the hole you now have, and now you have a book you can hide something in.
Or just burn them.
Re: Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots
#17Most of the books in these community libraries are really crappy. I would assume that people: a. Toss out books at home they don't like and bring them to these libraries b. Take interesting books from the libraries, and leave the bad ones Any ideas on how to improve that?
My sister runs a "Little Library" and her solution has been to throw money at it --- uninteresting/objectionable books are removed and books which she wants to distribute (often copies of books we remember fondly from childhood) are placed there.
Re: Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots
#18You might see if you can incorporate the data from https://littlefreelibrary.org/map/ as well
That site runs by charging a fee for promotion/maintenance of the database/marketing.
Re: Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots
#19Most of the books in these community libraries are really crappy. I would assume that people: a. Toss out books at home they don't like and bring them to these libraries b. Take interesting books from the libraries, and leave the bad ones Any ideas on how to improve that?
If people own a book they probably liked it at some point.
Re: Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots
#20You might see if you can incorporate the data from https://littlefreelibrary.org/map/ as well
And they have a restrictive license. Not gonna happen