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One of my local used books stores has a wooden bin/box/crate outside of free books. If your book(s) are rejected by the store for resell and you don't want to take them back home, then you put them in the bin. Some people also just dump books in there. It's right next to the front door, so this is its intended use.

Every time I go, I collect any prayer books, bibles, or other religious garbage I find. Then, I take it home with me and put it where it belongs.

I'm doing my part!

im not convinced people actually use these things. it just makes people feel like they are doing something.

now what i do see get used alot is food pantries. my gf works for a food retailer and we would get so much free shit we would take it something that looks like a Little Library but for food. Granted some of it wasnt healthy food, but the samples coming to our house during COVID was insane. And theres nothing wrong with a snack. That thing would get cleared out regularly.

"little free libraries" are a pernicious, individualist perversion of Public Libraries. They should all be vandalized for daring to associate themselves with such a venerable institution.

Who erects these things? People who own freestanding/duplex homes on leafy residential urban streets. Who wish to make a permanent display out of how nice they are. Yet in a way that centers themselves with no accountability in sight.

This lady sounds fucked. However as far as I can tell she is in accordance with the conceit of these things.

Try doing this at an actual Public Library and feel the Wrath of the Librarians.