We have a makeshift library like this in my apartment complex, and our municipality have one in our town. It’s cool stuff!
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#52I 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.
Did the stamp work out?
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#53There are several in my neighborhood, and I enjoy patronizing them. The only difficulty is the same books sit in them for months at a time. What might work is having a backing store of books, and rotate them through the library once a month or so.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Hello fellow Brisbanite! Australia has it's own version of this directory - see if you can find it here: https://streetlibrary.org.au/brisbane/
They are both there, thanks for that link.
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#56These started in a tiny Wisconsin town called Hudson, where I grew up. The only time we’d ever be front page on HN :)
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#57There are people who are angry at Little Free Libraries because they have somehow convinced themselves that they are a plot to drive regular public libraries out of business. Absolute madness.
that's wild because public libraries aren't in business to begin with. they're a public good, they exist to give the public something, not to extract profit from them.
Public libraries are funded and supported by the public though. They need attention, and if you read the other comments on this post it's almost like most of these people don't even realise that public libraries exist.
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#58This is very cool, they are a common sight in some cities in Germany and I always love checking through them.
I have to admit I expected some OSS library when I clicked the link, I need to touch grass more.
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#59I 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.
Drug addicts mess with them in most of the states I have been to, including Oregon, Washington, California, Maryland and New York.
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#60A 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.
What do you do with them? Give them away on Facebook or something?