Litsy

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 1w

kspenmoll You have some beauties there! (edited) 1w

TheBookgeekFrau @KadaGul So happy; and just a smidge worried about having enough room for all of them 😁😅 1w

Ruthiella Wow! What a windfall! 1w

TieDyeDude 💪 1w

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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. 😄 2mo

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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! 😍 2mo

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Amiable

Untitled | Untitled

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

dabbe 😂😂😂 3mo

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! 😂 3mo

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 3mo

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AmyG Hahahahaha! 3mo

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 😔😖😫😵‍💫🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ 3mo

Gissy Wow! Many things happening in those LFL😳 3mo

LeahBergen 😂😂 3mo

Amiable @Aimeesue Totally agree! 😄 3mo

Amiable @CSeydel That‘s so obnoxious and rude! I know the libraries are “free,” but that‘s basically stealing. 3mo

Amiable @KadaGul Right? It sucks when people think of the LFLs as trash receptacles. 😖 3mo

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. 😂 3mo

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. 3mo

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! 3mo

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 3mo

Amiable @KadaGul @Aimeesue You guys are awesome! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 What areas do you live in/patrol for LFL? 3mo

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. 3mo

Amiable @KadaGul Nice! My husband grew up in Arlington Heights —is that kind of near you? 3mo

KadaGul @Amiable Yes , Arlington Heights is near us. Do you visit Chicagoland? 3mo

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 3mo

Amiable @KadaGul My in-laws live in Chicago now—we visit every few years. 3mo

Amiable @Aimeesue My youngest son went to College Park —I love the DC area! He lives in Baltimore now, though. 3mo

Aimeesue @Amiable We love going to Baltimore! I even made the whole family visit the Poe residence/apartment there! 3mo

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. 🙄 3mo

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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! 6mo

TheBookgeekFrau @marleed Thank you 😊 Though I can only take credit for the idea and the books 😆 6mo

TieDyeDude 😍 Great work! 6mo

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dabbe Lovely! 🤩🤩🤩 6mo

TheBookgeekFrau @TieDyeDude Thanks! 💕 6mo

TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe 🤍🤗❤️ 6mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I love it!! 6mo

TheBookgeekFrau @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you!💕 6mo

bthegood beautiful - 6mo

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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 😁

LiteraryinLawrence What a successful book sale! And that‘s so exciting you‘re doing a LFL. 7mo

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 😫😅 7mo

bookandbedandtea What a great haul! And yay for starting at LFL! 👏🏻 7mo

TheBookgeekFrau @bookandbedandtea I'm so excited about it, you'd think I was opening a business or something 😂😁 7mo

bookandbedandtea @TheBookgeekFrau 😂 7mo

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SomedayAlmost

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

Decorated my LFL for Halloween! Also added “Coraline” & other deliciously scary books. Bucket list item completed! 10 points for my list. #Scarathlon #lfl #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall #bucketlist

Melismatic Love it! 7mo

FlynnDewey This is awesome! 7mo

SomedayAlmost Thanks! Being a LFL steward is super fun. There‘s only like 10 people in my neighborhood using it consistently, but it‘s a start… 7mo

bthegood 💕 💕 7mo

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TheBookgeekFrau

Walkabout | Charles and Elsa Chauvel

After dinner walk with daughter and granddaughter and I scored at my neighborhood #LFL 👍🏼👍🏼

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