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Sarah Miller's avatar

Love this, and love, love, love Little Free Libraries, of course! (Shoutout to my fellow Wisconsinite Lexie, too.) My mom's LFL is adorable -- she has added a birdbath, and a hook for dog leashes and a box of dog treats to the post underneath the books. She gets a lot of foot traffic and her inventory turns over daily.

I have wanted one for years -- of course I want one -- but my neighborhood, too, is saturated with them, and I live on a dead-on street without a sidewalk so while there *is* foot traffic, it's not as heavy as it is a block away where people are going places, and walking is safer. I think I could differentiate by offering only children's books -- there are a lot of kids in the 15 or so houses immediately surrounding me ranging from babies to teenagers, but I worry that I'd be heartbroken if we built one, filled it up, and then no one used it...

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Neal Thompson's avatar

I have a bit of an LFL addiction. Cannot walk past one (and there are dozens in my Seattle neighborhood) without stopping. And I've donated hundreds over the years. It's a great thing.

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