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As someone who likes to look into little free libraries in the US while out walking, I'd beg to disagree with the generalization of US book owners - at least wh
by pugworthy 3y ago
As someone who likes to look into little free libraries in the US while out walking, I'd beg to disagree with the generalization of US book owners - at least what I've seen.
- _fs 3y agoI swear, every time I peek inside a little library, its like a daycare reading corner meets a dan brown fan club. Always a pile of kids book with covers torn off and crayon drawings added on. And then 5 copies of the latest Dan Brown novel. I don't really need to read any more thrillers turned movies, thank you.
- dfxm12 3y agoBe the change you want to see in in your neighborhood.
- pugworthy 3y agoYes
- 1123581321 3y agoThat's because people are taking out the good books and not putting in other good books. You should contribute, too. And periodically the owner should prune the junk.
- PaulHoule 3y agoI got bitched out by my son from bringing home two Piers Anthony books from one of those little libraries, I told him that Anthony was pretty good before Xanth.
- PaulHoule 3y agoAll around Ithaca there are little boxes, sometimes like a mailbox, where you can “take a book or leave a book”. We also have bookshelves all over the place with free children’s books that are sponsored by an NGO. I remember picking up a copy of Rights Talk at a free books book in Montreal, thanks the most political book I’ve seen which I like a lot despite a very dated take on the Americans with Disabilities act (e.g. it is not all controversial the way it was when it was new.). The success of Obamacare also shows that the impasses it predicts don’t necessarily happen in practice although certain “culture war” topics are as pathological as ever.