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I’m being gifted a “Little Free Library” for my birthday and I’m super excited to get started.

This is the one on the way:

https://shop.littlefreelibrary.org/collections/little-free-libraries/products/composite-double-door-cottage-blue-little-free-library?variant=43439460974741

While they’re good at listing the EXTERNAL dimensions, they don’t really cite the INTERNAL dimensions.

Any idea? I’ve never had to shop for books by size before. LOL.

I’ve got MORE than a few ideas after working in an actual library and bookstores for years and years, but I’m interested to know…

If size were no object, what books would YOU give away for free? 🤔

  • Jordan LundOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That’s going to be interesting to me, monitoring what gets taken and what gets left.

    • mill@reddthat.com
      2·
      1 year ago

      There was one house that kept theirs well stocked with interesting things, but someone or someones with cars would come and steal everything out of it. The family gave up eventually in great sadness and gave the library to a neighbor. I haven’t seen any big sudden emptying-outs in quite a while, so maybe it was just one asshole who moved or went to jail for something or who knows what.

      One library was taken up as a home by wasps (and yet I could see through the window that the books kept changing, so they must have been somewhat docile wasps!), and one library got warped in rain and their books get moldy in the rainy season, so do keep paying attention to the condition of your library.

      • Jordan LundOPEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, I hope it doesn’t just get pillaged. We’ll see!