Little Free Library

A while back, a local non-profit here in Flint, MI held a campaign and got a handful of these put up. It is amazing that, in a city where anything not bolted down is fair game for theft, these Little Free Libraries are (afaik) always stocked, and I have never heard any stories of people finding their LFL empty one morning. It does restore a little faith in humanity.

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Post by pnathan » Thu, Aug 28, 2014, 5:49 PM UTC

There are a number of these in Seattle.

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Post by samelawrence » Thu, Aug 28, 2014, 5:50 PM UTC

There's one of these near where I live in Atlanta. I always love seeing new books come in and out. Maybe I should stock it with some more technical topics...

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Post by jvoorhis » Thu, Aug 28, 2014, 5:51 PM UTC

I've seen these throughout residential neighborhoods in Portland. Most seem to be stocked with romance novels or childrens lit, but my wife recently found a biography of Captain James Cook that she was planning to read.

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Post by jvoorhis » Thu, Aug 28, 2014, 5:53 PM UTC

samelawrence wrote: post #7

There's one of these near where I live in Atlanta. I always love seeing new books come in and out. Maybe I should stock it with some more technical topics...

I once lived in an apartment building with a "free stuff pile" near the door. I had to do a double take when I saw a manual for the Miranda programming language. I say go for it.

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Post by titusjohnson » Thu, Aug 28, 2014, 5:54 PM UTC

These are everywhere in Minneapolis. I've restocked them a few times when a book purge is done.