Little Free Library

[Anonymous No.21503330]

I live off a main road but get a fair amount of dog walkers and baby stroller pushers.

I was thinking of making a little free library to help encourage some reading.

What should I put in it's limited space? I highly doubt the average person will want to read Moby Dick, but might like something famous that is easy to read.

If you had limited room for books and wanted to encourage reading that wasn't brain dead right wing garbage or smut, what books would you pick?

[Anonymous No.21503338]

>>21503330
>that wasn't brain dead right wing garbage o
Of course it's a tranny making this shitty thread!

[Anonymous No.21503343]

you're assuming anyone would stop to read a book instead of either ignoring it or stealing it

[Anonymous No.21503344]

No one ever puts real books in these. It is all YA romance.

[Anonymous No.21503347]

DPZ's "Suburban Nation".

[Anonymous No.21503351]

>>21503330
Ask around the neighborhood

[Anonymous No.21503357]

>>21503330
I will bet you $100 that if you make one of these and put Moby-Dick inside, that it will be gone within a week's time. Venmo me bitch.

[Anonymous No.21503360]

>>21503338
come on, that anon seems to have a good heart :(
>>21503330
make sure that your little library is protected against bugs and the like
perhaps you could print out some classic, royalty-free short stories and bind them with simple techniques
perhaps you could also use a page to elaborate on your ambitions because most people simply are not interested in reading

[Anonymous No.21503368]

>>21503344
listen i live in a german city where these are common and its always almost all trash and a few treasures. but there is always at least one treasure

[Anonymous No.21503373]

I would take the books and piss into your little free library cuckshed

[Anonymous No.21503404]

>>21503343
Sure, I'll be out a cheap paperback, no worries.

>>21503344
Be the change you want to see.

>>21503373
Sure, that is an option. No good dead goes unpunished, so I'd be prepared for something like that to happen.

[Anonymous No.21503442]

Smoke a bowl of crack and let an text-to-speech device record and print out your tweaker ravings.
Bind them in fancy beautiful covers, give some famous titles, and let people read them.
Never mention to anyone that asks

[Anonymous No.21503460]

My dairy desu

[Anonymous No.21503486]

>>21503442
A modern version of "a pickle for the knowing ones"

[Anonymous No.21503498]

>>21503330
I see a couple of these around my city and they are cringe incarnate, and also "community pantries". This is what passes for a sense of community in the 2020s - cupboards on the street. Just support and participate in your actual local library you absolute faggot.

[Anonymous No.21503542]

I dont know. Stock it with some old adventure novels. Lost Horizon, HR Haggard, jack london, thriw in some basic fantasy like the hobbit and lotr. Maybe some sallinger. Also an idea ive had for those that you should try if you have the time: make a basic "criticsl thinking skills" pamphlet that covers very basic logic and understanding how the manipulation of public opinion on literally anything is abused to extort the average person. Dont make it political. And I dont care if that sounds retarded or patronizing of an idea the average person needs that. And if they happen to get a little dose of critical thinking from a free library well good.

[Anonymous No.21503568]

>>21503330
>be me
>walking about and happen upon a little free library
>take a look
>Gender Studies textbook from 2005, The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Parents, a copy of Charlotte's Web with the names jAmES/Sarah on the inside cover
ffs.

[Anonymous No.21503574]

>>21503373
Found the n*gger.

[Anonymous No.21503582]

>>21503330
>what books would you pick?

[Anonymous No.21503615]

>>21503368
>>21503404
Just went to the one down the street from me (California). It was two thirds empty, but I was pleasantly surprised. What was in there were almost entirely older dimestore romances (Pirates and shit), not YA. I withdraw my post as clearly young women do not use them in my area, only 40+ moms. Truly LFLs are the highest quality.

[Anonymous No.21503629]

>>21503615
>Free books
>Complain

[Anonymous No.21503661]

>>21503344
These are usually for like 5-12 year olds in shitty households that can't/won't buy books, so that tracks.

[Anonymous No.21503671]

>>21503629
I would rather never read again than read about how captain Smith raped Jenny but she liked it.

[Anonymous No.21503676]

>>21503661
There aren't any niggers here. My town was 71% non-hispanic white and 25% Asian at the 2020 census. There were less than 20 blacks in the entire town of over 12,000.

[Anonymous No.21503679]

>>21503676
no one mentioned niggers schizo

[Anonymous No.21503686]

>>21503330
Guenon, Evola, Carlyle, Junger and Moldbug

[Anonymous No.21503811]

>>21503330
stick to your old secondhand books. anything with high resell value might get stolen by joggers or karens.
>>21503344
i've gotten great picks from them, but i live in a major city, not flyoverstan.

[Anonymous No.21503991]

Everyone saying these things have shitty books, that's literally why I'm asking for good books to put in there you stupid nihilist scum.

It would be right out in my front yard and I'd just trash the crap and keep it stocked.

I'm not so poor I can't afford a few paperback replacements.

[Anonymous No.21503998]

>>21503811
>might get stolen
They're free books, anon. You're not supposed to return them (but you're a dick if you never put anything back in).

[Anonymous No.21504010]

>>21503998
i got in an argument with my friend about whether youre supposed to return them or not

[Anonymous No.21504011]

>>21503998
>You're not supposed to return them
>anon admits to casually stealing dozens of books from innocent well-meaning people

[Anonymous No.21504017]

Put your favorites in it. Share the books you love with your neighbors.

[Anonymous No.21504028]

>>21503998
Right, they are yours to return or keep.

Everyone kinda big mad in here over people who don't look after their libraries.

[Anonymous No.21504040]

you're going to lose all the good books and get stuck with crap that should be used as firestarter. My local one actually started asking people to return the books after reading

[Anonymous No.21504044]

>called a library
>you totally don't have to return the books though
you are niggers.

[Anonymous No.21504072]

>>21503330
OP is just trying to get milf poon
He is going to keep a stack of book by the door and when he sees any milves at the liberry he will rush out with the books ,,,,=Oh hey ! I was just about to restock this ,,, you see anything you like ladies???!!?!?!?/!!!11

[Anonymous No.21504100]

>>21504011
>>21504028
>"LIBRARY" THO!
You're literally supposed to keep (if you so choose) and donate you pedantic retard autists.
>>21504010
You take and you donate. I've returned books to different neighbourhoods from where I took them and donated some of my own.

[Anonymous No.21504144]

>>21504028
Sorry, I meant to put you in the second part and tag this faggot: >>21504044.

[Anonymous No.21504198]

>>21503811
>flyoverstan
I'm from California.

[Anonymous No.21504213]

>>21503330
>what books would you pick?
adventure books, sci fi and fantasy, kids books. The kind of things someone walking by would want casually. Anything you consider important to you to share for free.

[Anonymous No.21504216]

>>21503343
>>stealing it
that is the point, people take them.

[Anonymous No.21504217]

>>21504040
That's the idea, dumbass.
What are you poor?

[Anonymous No.21504257]

>>21504217
>That's the idea, dumbass.
No it isn't. If you don't donate you're a dick but it's fully expected you'll sometimes keep the book and/or redonate it to a different box, retard.

[Anonymous No.21504285]

The popular classics tend to be cheaper because theres tons of used paperbacks out there so it's easy to throw a few of them in there. Then some wholesome fiction for kids like Redwall, Edge Chronicles, Series of Unfortunate Events, Battimaeus, books by Frances Hardinge, and so on. And then maybe a few books written by people who are from that region/country or books on the history of your broad general region

[Anonymous No.21504310]

>>21504285
Good ideas, thanks!

[Anonymous No.21504312]

>>21503338
>Of course it's a tranny
Least retarded American conservative

[Anonymous No.21504338]

>>21503498
>"community pantries"
There's one of those in my neighbourhood and it attracts shit people. The only people I've ever seen taking from it are shady and they come at random hours of the night. Seriously, I live in a nice neighbourhood but that fucking pantry attracts scuz.

[Anonymous No.21504346]

>>21503343
>>21503811
>>21504011
>>21504044

[Anonymous No.21504355]

>>21503357
I don't do Venmo, but I'll take that bet. What's your name and routing number?

[Anonymous No.21504361]

>>21504346
N

[Anonymous No.21504491]

>>21503344
I've gotten an older copy of Dune as well as A Thousand Splendid Suns out of one in my neighborhood, keep looking

[Anonymous No.21504531]

>>21503368
Got the Wordsworth Press edition of The Travels of Marco Polo in one a few years back (Virginia).

[Anonymous No.21504550]

>>21503338
>Hey guys im making my community better. Just please dont reccomend me meme Evola and Guenon for the 157th time
>TRANNYYYYY TRANNY TRANNY!!

[Anonymous No.21504557]

>>21503330
You could try putting some anti-circumcision books in it in order to redpill normies on why genital mutilation is bullshit.

[Anonymous No.21504600]

>>21504550
Deleuze (solo works only)
Posada thought
Hoxha thought
Posada-Hoxha thought (you may need to write this)
Posada-Hoxha thought as interspecies dolphine porn.
Posada-Hoxha thought as a prequel to Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy: the script of the never recorded Radio Play.
Untasteful genuinely lesbian piss porn, the kind done on the Broadway Shopping centre travellators. Yes ladies, I remember.
The Hungry Hungry Caterpillar (R)
Pro female circumcision books, written from lesbian Domme perspectives.

[Anonymous No.21504612]

>>21503442
Hehe that monkeys got spy glasses

[Anonymous No.21504631]

Maybe I don't trust people, but I feel like anything you took would be covered with dog shit, and anything you leave will inevitably get taken and set fire to by children.
Maybe if you placed them inside of local establishments, and not on the street.

[Anonymous No.21504632]

i have a few of these within a couple blocks of me OP. yes, the majority of shit in them is just people unloading their junk but i've found a few gems.

Think of books you've always wanted others to read but would be too awkward to gift. My recommendations:

-Think and Grow Rich
-The Bible
-Cheap Classics like Treasure Island, Gulliver's Travels, Huck Finn/Tom Sawyer
-And then give some aspiring reader out there some /lit/pills like Dostoevsky, Hemmingway, and whatever else you like

[Anonymous No.21504640]

>>21504557
Is this just a written vr of his lecture?

[Anonymous No.21504671]

This thread inspired me to go down to the one a few houses away and check out the selection. My expectations were low but Holy shit.

I have half a mind to start putting copies of Mein Kampf in there but it'd just be wasted on my liberal yuppie neighborhood

[Anonymous No.21504679]

>>21504550
>hey guys I'm making my community better
>[sniffs farts]
>let's talk about what we would put in an LFL
>[sniffs farts]
>don't endorse rightwing GARBAGE in MY thread
>[sniffs farts]
Fuck you.

[Anonymous No.21504794]

>>21504671
Might make the papers no one reads

[Anonymous No.21504801]

really think about who your audience is for little libraries. It's oldies and mostly women

[Anonymous No.21504804]

>>21504044
The point is you take one and leave one.

Op, include a classic like huck Finn. Maybe something historical about your specific town or state, some contemporaries, then just go to some library and pick out some interesting stuff they’re selling cheap and there you go.

[Anonymous No.21504807]

i got first 2 short stories of the witcher series recently. i think i dropped a Terry Pratchett in there

[Anonymous No.21504822]

Wouldn't it make infinitely more sense to have a shelf at a local bar or convenience store?
A wooden box in the street seems a really dumb way to do this idea. damp's going to get in there, for one thing.

[Anonymous No.21504839]

I suggest going to your local thrift store and looking at what they have. There's no point in filling up a free library with expensive books and thrift stores always have some classics available cheap.

[Anonymous No.21504841]

I was going to give you a good list OP, but there's too many racists in here. You have to shoo those undesirables out if you want real conversation.

[Anonymous No.21504856]

>>21503330
>>21503338
Historian here, what does right wing mean? What ideas are right wing?

Most of human history, most literature, most cultural productions come from what people today would consider genocidal, ethnocentric, right wing bigots. The ideas of tolerance are just a bit older than acceptance, and I don't think they'll last.

You exclude most things written before WWII.

[Anonymous No.21504862]

>>21503330
>right wing
>smut
Pick one, you colossal faggot.

[Anonymous No.21504869]

>>21504862
Gor is right wing smut. There's lots of slavery and misogyny and sex.

[Anonymous No.21504875]

>>21504856
I mean obviously Jacques Roux is left wing. A montagnard in fact.

[Anonymous No.21504900]

>>21504869
>misogyny and slavery is smut
Again, COLOSSAL faggot.

[Anonymous No.21505245]

>>21503344
I've found Master & Margarita, Invisible Cities, Libra, Blindness, Wolf Hall, Things They Carried, some works of Shakespeare, and baby books.
-Denver

[Anonymous No.21505291]

>>21503330
The kreutzer sonata.
Notes from underground.
Madame Bovary.
Moon and sixpence.
American psycho.
The kite runner.
Down and out in Paris and London.
1984.

[Anonymous No.21505300]

>>21503679
Seethe moar nigg*r

[Anonymous No.21505332]

>>21503344
books I've found:
The Road
Never let me go
Clara and the Sun
The Black Swan
Robinson Crusoe
Wealth of Nations
Inherent Vice
Vineland
crying of lot 49
lots of shakespeare
the complete works of Aeschlyus
the Doors of Perception
some Dickens
every christopher priest novel, someone in my neighborhood is apparently a big fan

[Anonymous No.21505413]

>>21503338
I swear, you political drones have the thinnest skin around. Consider the possibility that not wanting to be completely bombarded by politics 24/7 does not imply membership in Opposite Tribe. If you engage your brain for even half a second, it becomes not just possible but glaringly fucking obvious that being sick and tired of right wing politics does not at all imply a disposition favoring left wing politics. I can hate niggers without being a rightist and I can hate retards without being a leftist. And God do I fucking hate retards.
>HURRRR URKKKK UHHHHHHH BOLIDIGS HUH ????
You drooling ideological sycophants need to unfuck yourselves.

[Anonymous No.21505601]

>>21503330
animal farm, mark twain

[Anonymous No.21505639]

>>21505332
>someone in my neighborhood is apparently a big fan
I have Krishnas in my hood, they spam everybody with their religion and vegan shit.

[Anonymous No.21506718]

>>21504804
it's a LIBRARY, just a decentralized user-funded LIBRARY. at a LIBRARY you take out books and you return the books when you're done reading them. anyone who steals from people trying to better their community is a piece of shit and you should slash your wrists open.

[Anonymous No.21506748]

>>21503330
Just put some cheap classics or ya in there. Soon there will be some who treat your library as a dumping ground for unwanted books, and some who just take without giving. They balance each other out and the ecosystem rolls.

[Anonymous No.21506811]

>>21503330
Classic short stories, Poe, Henry James, etc.
'Train books' like short novels, Amelie Nothomb, Buzzatti, those Japanese authors, Dubliners by James Joyce, small philosophical works like What is Enlightenment?, Alain's About Happiness, the Republic...
Classic poems from Shakespeare, Keats, Byron. A few not too long classic novels.

The maximum buying price for the books should be 4$.

[Anonymous No.21506881]

>>21503343
American spotted.
My homeland has these all over the place and they’re chock full. Bus stops, cafes, outside of schools. They’re everywhere. They’re never abused or ruined. My homeland is rural and homogeneous btw. I don’t think I’ve seen as many in the cities which are far more diverse in the beliefs and backgrounds of their populace. It’s the same when I visit countries on the continent. They’re generally in homogeneous areas away from large urban centres.

[Anonymous No.21507510]

>>21503330
A jew will come by at least once a week and purge it of all based content and fill it with philosemitic, degenerate, globohomo shit.

If you remove said philosemitic, degenerate, globohomo shit, the curating jew will write an op-ed piece in the local newspaper accusing you of being an antisemite.

Any book worth having will be taken and only the shit will remain. Giving free books to people is like giving free food to wild animals or giving welfare to niggers. Make them buy their own fucking books.

Fuck little lending libraries.

[Anonymous No.21507520]

>>21507510
I always wonder what's more likely: that someone is this impossibly committed to a bit, or if there is a kernel of honest belief in this poster's spittle. For 4chan guessing probly the former.

[Anonymous No.21507522]

>>21503357
I unironically got a pristine copy of Moby Dick (like faux leather bound; part of a 'classical books series' or something) of of a LLL in an (almost) exclusively jewish part of town. I will reply with photo if this thread is still up when I get home.

[Anonymous No.21507537]

>>21503686
>Guenon
who dis?
I've seen/noticed his name like 10 times in the past few days on /lit/.
Sure I can use the internet, but I don't wanna.

[Anonymous No.21507549]

>>21504632
>Hemmingway
the absolute state of /lit/.

[Anonymous No.21507557]

>>21503330
agatha christie

[Anonymous No.21507559]

>>21504671
Holy Fuck, mail me that The Yearling!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous No.21507731]

>>21503330
fuck is this hipster shit

[Anonymous No.21507773]

>>21503330
These things always suck. The books there are garbage. You might start it off with some decent books but I imagine it'll quickly turn into shite

[Anonymous No.21507792]

>>21503330
I put nice, literary books in the Starbucks free library I go to all the time. Some of them actually get taken. Debating if I should put my email or number in the book saying to contact me if interested in discussing it. Curious who is picking them up

[Anonymous No.21508882]

>>21507510
I have never heard of this happening. If someone filled their cabinet with "based" content and meme books, like, say Industrial Society & Its Future, Mein Kampf, Culture of Critique, Lolita, Call of the Crocodile, etc. that would probably the newsworthy bit.

[Anonymous No.21509723]

this thread inspired me to check one about 10 mins away from me
idk what i was expecting

[Anonymous No.21509726]

>>21509723
that batman: year one is pretty good

[Anonymous No.21510004]

>>21503330
I would put high profile books in there who could bait someone into becoming their "golden book" like Gene Wolfe out it and get them into reading.

I would put the first book of: Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, ASOIAF, Narnia, Earthsea for Fantasy

Frankenstein, Dracula for Horror

The Count of Monte Cristo, Don Quixote, Moby Dick, Of Mice and Men, Cat's Cradle, from the world literature take books like this which are either very short or easy to read. Take stuff a child could read, don't underestimate how many people are functionally illiterate.

Treasure Island, 3 Musketeers for adventure novels, maybe other cool stuff like King Solomon's Mines, Master and Commander

A few plays maybe, Faust, Hamlet, something by Schiller

A few sagas, Ring Cycle, Odyssee, King Arthur, The Prose Edda etc. Doesn't have to be the original version, abridged for the casual reader is fine.

Some books about myths, just general tales of the roman gods or tales of the norse gods stuff

Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm

Some entry tier Sci Fi, maybe Starship Troopers, something by Baxter, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and some more stuff by Dick

Also put a few pocket picks in there which are less known but you love. Maybe someone will find and appreciate them.

That's how I will build such a free library one day, just a whole bunch of easy to read good to great books from a wide variety of genres to bait a fortunate soul into the hobby of reading. I guess you should also put some romance in there for women, but I never read a single romance book in my life.

[Anonymous No.21511478]

>>21505639
I recently read a Krisna-splinter poetry collection they handed out and reviewed it negatively on good reads. Idk how long I have to live.

[Anonymous No.21512041]

>encourage reading
>trying to help people
>giving away free stuff to strangers
This will not end well

[Anonymous No.21512096]

>>21503330
If anyone wants a hot tip, go to older neighbourhoods (with older people) for these libraries. The books are always better than neighbourhoods with young families.

[Anonymous No.21512110]

>>21504856
You're not a historian.

[Anonymous No.21512270]

>>21504856
>>21512110
He's based though.

[Anonymous No.21512284]

I would put my favorite book; "the sailor who fell from grace with the Sea" by Mishima
I want someone to enjoy it as i did

[Anonymous No.21513038]

>>21503330
I haven’t seen anyone suggest this yet but maybe a collection of poetry or short stories?

[Anonymous No.21513258]

>>21503330
Give your neighbours a happy surprise by stocking books bound in elephant hide.

[Anonymous No.21514390]

>>21511478
>reviewed it negatively on good reads
Good work anon.cant let them get away with it.

[Anonymous No.21515150]

>>21505413
>not wanting to be bombarded
Op don't care, he just wants to be bombarded by HIS preferred politics

[Anonymous No.21515152]

>>21503568
I will literally set fire to any of these "little free libraries" if they're full of pozzed shit

[Anonymous No.21515159]

>>21503486
Based thanks for the book. “ Dexter began selling bed warmers to the West Indies, a move that proved to be a good idea when the captain sold them as ladles in molasses production.[5][4] In another instance, Dexter bought a large amount of coal and sent it to Newcastle, an idea given to him by opponents as a trick, but it happened that Dexter sent the coal during a miners' strike in the town.[1]”
What a meme

[Anonymous No.21515169]

>>21504900
Gor is absolutely smut you fucking mong, there's an entire fetish subculture based around the stories.

[Anonymous No.21515196]

>>21503330
Last thing you see before rent shoots up 90%

[Anonymous No.21515696]

>>21509723
>rub your poop inside the shitty ones
>coom on the smut
>leave the rest as is

[Anonymous No.21515717]

>>21503330
>brain dead right wing garbage
That doesn't mean anything, since all socialist/communist/left-wing books are complete garbage not based on any evidence.
>Little Free Library
It's literally not worth it.
People take good books and replace them with shit.
I donate books from this list to my local library: http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html

#YNBAW

[Anonymous No.21516463]

OP here, there seem to be pretty stupid and short sighted morons in here (go figure).

My goal is to encourage reading, so I'd be curating the books making sure it didn't devolve into cosmo magazines and Mormon horseshit.

If someone takes a cheap paperback copy of 1984, who cares? I'm buying a stamp that shows where the book is from and that it isn't for sale to place in the front cover. Most places refuse to buy books from free libraries. If they resell them for 20 bucks online, I really don't give a shit.

If they keep it, I still don't give a shit.

A lot of people seem to be missing the point about owning and curating one of these.

Thank you to the people that had good suggestions!

[Anonymous No.21517749]

>>21509723
this might be the worst selection i've seen. mine are filled with classics, hidden gems, and local mid authors (professionally published, not self; regional lit is a thing for people who live places worth living.)

[Anonymous No.21517756]

>>21516463
you could use pen/marker on the inside cover stating it's an lfl book. i've never seen them do this and i know there are scum pinching the good books to scalp online.

[Anonymous No.21517914]

>>21517756
I'd be buying something like this and placing it near the spine on the front cover.

They would either have to sell it online themselves or rip the cover off the book, which has 0 resale value typically.

[Anonymous No.21517918]

>>21517914
Sorry, INSIDE the front cover.

[None !SabreuOo0. No.21517938]

>>21503330

OP, I live in an upscale suburb of Detroit that has about five of these in a local five block or so radius. Yuppies will drop some remarkable and expensive stuff in there, often.

My best advice is to not worry so much about the contents - find a friend who will make a box as well and get a bunch of them going around town. Add cool stuff as well like motion activated LEDs and such, perhaps a well-protected corkboard for locals to post on would be a smart move. Don't worry about the books; definitely pick up a bunch of, like, Dover Thrift Classics on Amazon just to get the ball rolling with some decent stuff. Magazines and lit journals are also awesome to see if relatively up to date. YMMV and keep us posted!

[Anonymous No.21518256]

>>21517938
based, ann arborite here. moving to detroit later this year

[None !SabreuOo0. No.21518333]

>>21518256

Would that Detroit were clean, liveable and quiet. Alas, it is not. It is dirty and abandoned and everyone is leaving. Too bad!

[Anonymous No.21518412]

>>21503330
From the perspective of a librarian, Amish romance flies off the shelves.

[herb's the word No.21518425]

>>21503330
you're not saving the world from illiteracy, kill yourself

[Anonymous No.21519943]

>>21503330
I put against the day by pynchon in one of these in my neighborhood a week ago and no one has taken it yet

[Anonymous No.21520013]

>>21503338
You triggered all the trannies to (you) :D

[Anonymous No.21520886]

>>21518333
how can you live in the area and think that? that was true decades ago but not anymore. many different parts of the city are thriving and growing, if not completely gentrified at this point (e.g., midtown).

[Anonymous No.21521601]

>>21515159
it gets better
He frequently told visitors that his wife (who was actually alive) had died, and that the woman frequenting the building was simply her ghost.[2] In one notable episode, Dexter faked his own death to see how people would react, and about 3,000 people attended Dexter's mock wake. When Dexter did not see his wife cry, he revealed the hoax and promptly caned her for not sufficiently mourning his death.

[Anonymous No.21521831]

>>21509723
I'm going to start my booktuber life and do a series where I travel to these things around my metro area. Loke and subscribe.

[Anonymous No.21521932]

You should self publish a schizo manifesto and drop a copy of it in every free library of your city.

[Anonymous No.21522062]

Is there a way to make these things networked? Perhaps keep the contents listed on a website, then network those websites to each other.
Honestly it's a decent model for distribution.

[Anonymous No.21522105]

>>21503330
I google epub there are 10,0000 results. why i want you shitty paper book?

[Anonymous No.21522146]

>>21522105
There is no reason why the used models of ereaders which are on the secondary market cannot fit inside these boxes as well. Suppose a benefactor loaded them with the best books.

[Anonymous No.21522153]

>>21504839
I buy cheap classics from Goodwill all the time because I don't feel bad if I donate it back later or give it to someone.

[Anonymous No.21522777]

>>21503330
My only advice is, if you live in a big city, don’t register the free little library online. The registered ones get scoured by people who sell to bookstores.

[Anonymous No.21522779]

>>21503344
In big cities you get some great stuff. But yes, in the burbs it’s wall-to-wall Danielle Steele

[Anonymous No.21523873]

>>21503330
>If you had limited room for books and wanted to encourage reading that wasn't brain dead right wing garbage or smut, what books would you pick?

[Anonymous No.21524004]

>>21503330
>>21503343
They're made to be taken. These free things are for people to take books, and put their own books in. You shouldn't try and manipulate people into reading what you think they should. Eventually it will be out of your control anyway, and it's pretty arrogant of you. Where I live, they have them in some grocery stores, near the entrance. Sometimes there's more, and sometimes there's less, but there's always books there, and there's always a decent variety of books. They're a nice idea, and I like them a lot. If nothing else, they're a good way to get rid of your books without having to throw them away. I've never seen one empty or vandalized. If that happens in America, then you're doomed as a country.

[Anonymous No.21524095]

Could just fill it to the brim with identical copies of the terrible novelization of Howard the Duck

[Anonymous No.21524113]

>>21524095
>carefully making identical dog ears in the covers to really fuck with them

[Anonymous No.21524536]

>>21503330
Is it possible to make this rain or even storm proof?

[Anonymous No.21524703]

>>21522779
Such is the suburban life. I can't say I'm not a little asshurt that my parents left the city to move here specifically because my mom was pregnant with me.

[Anonymous No.21525247]

>>21520886

(I was doing the thing that people do when thriving, unlikely cities and sections of the country emerge or are suddenly talked about a lot and smart people trying to get comfy FUD said location to keep away the rabble and the dismantlers)

[Anonymous No.21525446]

Thread made me curious so I just popped down to check the local little-library in my suburb. It was all YA pulp and a copy of Fifty Shades of Grey of course. The only redeeming feature was a single CS Lewis.

[Anonymous No.21525612]

>>21503330
They're better in inner cities. I live where >>21505245 lives and I've seen some really good stuff. I once found all of Samuel Beckett's work in one.

I have heard about evangelicals and other jesus weirdos who dump entire libraries and put shitty pamphlets and bibles with awful binding in there.