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Added banned books to my LFL today. Bottom line: book banning is a threat to democracy. #bannedbooksweek #readbannedbooks #lfl

The_Book_Ninja 💯 2mo

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Eyelit

Little Free Library: A Tor.com Original | Naomi Kritzer

My HOA finally came around to the idea of a Little Free Library for our community! An excited board member expedited the process and got things set up. Spent a good few hours yesterday with her painting our LFL and hopefully we‘ll eventually have a mural on the back wall and plant a fairy garden around the stump it‘s set upon. I couldn‘t resist adding some books today even tho the official unveiling is later this week! 📚💕 #LFL #littlefreelibrary

Suet624 That‘s wonderful! 2mo

Kitta How lovely! 2mo

Sarahreadstoomuch Congrats! It looks so happy! 2mo

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Ruthiella Looks great! 🤩 2mo

AvidReader25 I love this! I have one as well and I‘m constantly refreshing it and emptying out unnecessary junk. 2mo

janeycanuck So cute! Congrats! ❤️ 2mo

Meshell1313 That‘s a win!! 2mo

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candc320

The House that Horror Built | Christina Henry

Recent book hauls! I found the top book in a #LFL near me and went and got the bottom books while out celebrating Mother‘s Day. They all seem like perfect Summer reads 😍. Happy Mother‘s Day to all that are celebrating 🎉 🥂 📚

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TheBookgeekFrau

Books! Books! Books!: Explore the Amazing Collection of the British Library | Mick Manning

And here are the keepers from the boxes in my previous post 📚😁

There are similar sized stacks of books that I already own, so lots of sharing for the Little Free Libraries around town!!!

KadaGul What an amazing 🤩 surprise from your husband! You must be 😁 about the fantastic book 📚 haul you received.#Bookhaul #littlefreelibrary #LFL 7mo

kspenmoll You have some beauties there! (edited) 7mo

TheBookgeekFrau @KadaGul So happy; and just a smidge worried about having enough room for all of them 😁😅 7mo

Ruthiella Wow! What a windfall! 7mo

TieDyeDude 💪 7mo

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shantireads11

The Little Engine That Could | Watty Piper

This week‘s lineup in the #LFL featuring some for the kiddos in the neighbourhood and this week‘s homemade bookmarks. Are we missing anything? #haidagwaii #littlefreelibrary #mixedbag

LeahBergen It looks perfect to me! But you‘ll need more bookmarks, of course. 😄 9mo

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shantireads11

Little Free Library: A Tor.com Original | Naomi Kritzer

Added a little free library to our book desert neighbourhood here in Haida Gwaii. It has been up for about a three weeks, and we have had 14 books taken, 12 added… pretty good for a town of 150! Many thanks to my expert advisor @LeahBergen #lfl #littlefreelibrary

LeahBergen It‘s a beauty! 😍 9mo

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Amiable

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It‘s about time. SOMEBODY needed to catch that guy. 😬😖 😄

dabbe 😂😂😂 10mo

Aimeesue OMG, I pulled a bunch of ancient, yellowed, foxed mass market PBs out of my LFL today. Not sure who thinks anyone is still reading Sidney Sheldon‘s pulp, but they need to stop! 😂 10mo

CSeydel Around here, these days, they just clean out the boxes - drive around, take everything and leave them all empty. I think they sell them at the flea market? but who knows. Annoying 10mo

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AmyG Hahahahaha! 10mo

KadaGul My friend and I regularly fill LFLs and move books around. It blows our mind what people think LFL is. Like we found trash 🚮, books in poor shape(If someone doesn't have courage to pitch their books in dumpster that doesn't mean they live the world to help them do it ) heavy books 📚 (if there is no weight limit doesn't mean you can dump 19th Century encyclopedia) C'Mon People 😔😖😫😵‍💫🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ 10mo

Gissy Wow! Many things happening in those LFL😳 10mo

LeahBergen 😂😂 10mo

Amiable @Aimeesue Totally agree! 😄 10mo

Amiable @CSeydel That‘s so obnoxious and rude! I know the libraries are “free,” but that‘s basically stealing. 10mo

Amiable @KadaGul Right? It sucks when people think of the LFLs as trash receptacles. 😖 10mo

Aimeesue @CSeydel @Aimiable LFL raiders are everywhere. Some of them use barcode scanners to determine if a book‘s worth reselling or not. Stewards really have to develop strategies to deter them, like spacing out when you add recent titles and not adding whole series at one time. Not much you can do about the religious tracts and racist political pamphlets, but that last one was solved when that neighbor moved. 😂 10mo

KadaGul @Aimeesue My friend's LFL is being used as Pop-Up Used bookstore. I told her & sent her ARCs, bc majority of bookstore won't take it. It's just a shame what's stewards have to do. My friend & I have a box of books 📚 in our car 🚘.I have few LFLs that I visit regular few by the libraries, office, City Hall, grocery 🏬. I have seen few LFLs that found traction bc LFLs was being replenished. It's not just stewards job to replenish but communities. 10mo

Aimeesue @KadaGul Community involvement is key! Someone in my neighborhood puts a lot of ARCs in mine as well - definitely appreciated! People seem to have a very hard time disposing of books, no matter how outdated or dilapidated they are. I‘m perfectly comfortable tossing them for those folks! 10mo

KadaGul @Aimeesue I do the same w/ tossing people trash 🚮 out. I see LFL and I start organizing it. Books 📚 give us so much love ❤️ and joy 🥹, they should be respected🫡. #Booklover #LFL 10mo

Amiable @KadaGul @Aimeesue You guys are awesome! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 What areas do you live in/patrol for LFL? 10mo

KadaGul @Amiable i lived in Pittsburgh for 3 years so around North Hills, Cranberry, Evan City. My friend's nephew LFL is in North Hills. Then we went to Columbus, OH and went around. Then I live and moved back recently Barrington, IL. So NW Suburbs of Chicago. 10mo

Amiable @KadaGul Nice! My husband grew up in Arlington Heights —is that kind of near you? 10mo

KadaGul @Amiable Yes , Arlington Heights is near us. Do you visit Chicagoland? 10mo

Aimeesue @Amiable I‘m right outside of DC, in Alexandria VA. We‘re a block away from an elementary school, so I focus on kids‘ books 10mo

Amiable @KadaGul My in-laws live in Chicago now—we visit every few years. 10mo

Amiable @Aimeesue My youngest son went to College Park —I love the DC area! He lives in Baltimore now, though. 10mo

Aimeesue @Amiable We love going to Baltimore! I even made the whole family visit the Poe residence/apartment there! 10mo

Amiable @Aimeesue We love Baltimore, too! So many people cringe and say, “But … ‘The Wire‘…” when we tell them our son lives there. It‘s so much more than that TV show from 20 years ago. 🙄 10mo

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TheBookgeekFrau

Little Free Library: A Tor.com Original | Naomi Kritzer

Finally got my #LFL up and filled!!!

🔨🪚: The Mr. 😁

marleed It‘s beautiful! 13mo

TheBookgeekFrau @marleed Thank you 😊 Though I can only take credit for the idea and the books 😆 13mo

TieDyeDude 😍 Great work! 13mo

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dabbe Lovely! 🤩🤩🤩 13mo

TheBookgeekFrau @TieDyeDude Thanks! 💕 13mo

TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe 🤍🤗❤️ 13mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I love it!! 13mo

TheBookgeekFrau @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you!💕 13mo

bthegood beautiful - 13mo

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TheBookgeekFrau

Books! Books! Books!: Explore the Amazing Collection of the British Library | Mick Manning

Hit the Friends of the Library Fall sale

The shorter stack is for me; the rest are for my #LFL which is on schedule for a November 1 launch 😁

LiteraryinPA What a successful book sale! And that‘s so exciting you‘re doing a LFL. 13mo

TheBookgeekFrau @LiteraryinLawrence Huge success!! I'm so excited about my LFL - I have wanted to do one since I moved to my current home 3 1/2 years ago. This weekend is all about getting the post installed which means a lot of digging 😫😅 13mo

bookandbedandtea What a great haul! And yay for starting at LFL! 👏🏻 13mo

TheBookgeekFrau @bookandbedandtea I'm so excited about it, you'd think I was opening a business or something 😂😁 13mo

bookandbedandtea @TheBookgeekFrau 😂 13mo

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