Little Free Libraries have been popping up everywhere in Newton these days. We’ve had a Little Free Library in our neighborhood in Waban for a couple years now; there have been two at “The Street” in Chestnut Hill for nearly as long; and in the past few weeks, others have appeared in front of the Waban Library Center, a house on Beacon Street, and a house in Newton Centre.
Anyone can put up a box filled with books with a sign telling passersby to take a book and leave a book, and it seems our neighbors are fond of reading and encouraging others to read. Although I mostly read books borrowed from the public library these days, having so many Little Free Libraries around is encouraging me to re-visit my shelves, looking for books I’ve read and don’t plan to revisit.
No book-lover likes to weed out books; ideally, we’d keep every book we’ve read or wanted to read. But giving books away is different. Leaving a book in a Little Free Library feels like the bookish equivalent of catch-and-release fishing. Having held a book in your hands for a little while, you set it free for some other reader to enjoy.
Jun 12, 2017 at 2:47 am
🙂 We have some bigger ones like these in Vienna, too.
And I regularly bring books there. Helps me declutter and additionally I know there’s somebody out there who will hopefully enjoy some of my reads.
Have a very HAPPY day 🙂
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Jun 12, 2017 at 6:10 am
Isn’t that just the neatest idea? I think they are novel. Yes, they are popping up here in NZ too.
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Sep 3, 2017 at 4:56 am
We have a Little Free Library in our village, it is very popular, and a great community project. https://librariesconnectcommunities.wordpress.com/2017/09/02/a-community-book-exchange/
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