>20 historical romance novels>Lisa Gardner>My Three Daddies>Aquarium Maintenance 1976 Edition>Christian self-help book
>>25394767You should pee in it.
i got white noise from one of these once
>>25394767The one closest to me has a based grandma going through loads of crime sloppa and givign a rating /10 on the first title page so I can only pick the decent ones.
Put Mein Kampf in it
>>25394894This, but The Very Hungry Caterpillar instead.
>>25394767You know, that recent article about how nobody reads any more was a bit depressing, but this sort of shit kind of puts it in perspective. What were people reading when they WERE reading? It feels like a lot of people are/were reading just slop. Like, your average Tom, Dick, and Harry wasn't reading Blood Meridian or Dubliners.In the 90s I know people read a ton of Tom Clancy, and it's interesting to me that that was considered "adult" literature since I was tearing through those books in 7th grade.
>>25394935It's always been slop. Harlequin and airport "novels" were the main sellers.
>>25394894replace all the blooks with mein kampf
>>25394767I want to put one in my front yard.
>>25394935>actually believing the "people don't le read anymore" lieThey literally measured this by taking new book sales and social media posts
>10 mystery books by the same author>1 book by an author who did a Daily Show interview 10 years ago>1 Programming In C++ For Dummies>20 paper-thin children's books>1 book from a fantasy trilogy (never the first book, always the third or fourth)>1 Spanish translation of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
>empty out entire street library>fill it to the brim with bibles>repeat regularly
>>25394767Is there anything more reddit than these fucking things? "Oh boy imma be a literino with my heckin neighbors in my walkable town." Holy shitnuou fags go a bookstore or a real library instead of subjecting yourself to your neighbors inferior taste.
>>25395163I live in the sticks but there is one close (aka under 10 miles) from me that is slap full of left leaning authors and media personalities that I've thought about doing this to.
>>25394767The reason is if you put any classic in there it would be taken and sold online or to a second hand book store for $2-$3. Now imagine if you have a half dozen, and the guy in the next neighborhood had a half dozen, that's easily $36 just sitting there. But nah I am thinking about making one of these, I need to solve how to prevent scalpers from raiding my book box. Thinking of just writing in ink behind the cover page the name of my street, so if it did end up in the town's secondhand bookstore, there might be someone later on who will put it back.
>>25395168but it's cute.
terminally-online people calling street libraries "reddit"
>>25395163>steal jackets from other books and put over bibles
>>25395168it's free and there's no return date99% of the time it's garbage but once in a while you find something interestingright now I've got a snagged picrel that's pretty interesting
>>25395186just don't put anything in there that would bum you out if it got taken foreverI've dumped a lot of old books I don't want anymore into these, it's more convenient than taking them to goodwill
I sort of have a minor regret over these little libraries. I want to say they popped up around me around 2014? Don't remember exactly. I met my first girlfriend on 4chan in 2010 and I'm sure she posted on /lit/. We'd spend tons of time walking to book stores and yard sales and things finding stuff to read. I wish we'd be together when these little fuckers were around because I'm sure she would have been super passionate about it.>>25395186Do you live in a fucking nigger neighborhood? I've gotten a lot of great books in the ones around here. However live in an area where the people are of good breeding and have jobs and houses.
I’m intending to put my paperback John Keats and facsimile Old Arcadia into one of these, only the thought of someone vandalising them gives me pause. Was the world always to be suspected thus?
>>25394767Surprised the doors are intact
>read banned books!>oh my science not THOSE banned books
>>25395387Hope the people in town like The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.
>>25395279I would be pretty pissed if I fell for this.
>>25395168>REDDIT REDDIT REDDITIt's a free library filled with books for children. Get a fucking grip.
>>25394767I once found a copy of East of Eden by Steinbeck. Extremely based. I wish there was objectily great literature boxes. Though normies would never use it. Went back to box yesterday it was filled with jew books in their hateful moongliphic language.
>>25394767Grab that Aquarium Maintenance book, shit might be good
I found pic related once. It was pretty boring.
I fart in empty jelly jars then put them in little free libraries so the next person who opens it gets their fart in my face
>>25395168You have to be 18 to use this website
>>25394773I found Libra by Delillo on Nov 22 a few years ago.
>>25394767yeah, but once every three months you find a book that makes it worth it.
>>25394774>givign a rating /10 on the first title pageactually a great idea. might start doing this too. Or I guess I would, but if it's good, then I keep it.
>>25394935wait, is the new ghost in the shell out already?
>>25394767>books on why mutilating baby dicks is bad
>>25394767Got House of Leaves and Catch 22 from one of these while all copies are in use at my library. House of Leaves had all 22 copies in use and 88 on hold.
>>25395168>I'm going to be literate with my neighbors in a walkable town.Is that not a good thing?
>>25394767I have one of these in my neighborhood. I'd pass by it on my morning walks every morning and sometimes I'd look inside. Mostly it seemed like a dumping ground for 40 or 50 year olds to get rid of baby books their children had. Stuff for actual toddlers, like chewable picture books that you could machine wash. Occasionally it looked like teenagers would drop off some young adult fiction. I figured I'd drop off a few of my older books I don't read anymore, the things I had when I was in school, I had a used hardcover copy of Edith Hamilton's Mythology from the 1960s that was still in decent condition, left that in the little free library. Also a collection of Plato's Dialogues, The Republic, Fagles translations of The Illiad and The Odyssey. All of these books I put in the library stayed there for months. They STILL might be there. Haven't gone up to check in a while.But there was one week I left behind a copy of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and the next week they were gone. You'd assume the people who would bother going up to a little free library would already have those, but I guess not.
>>25397253that's the same situation with mine, but once some marx and heidegger of mine i put in were taken in a few weeks
>>25394894Take out all the books. Chop off the covers. Glue them onto various copies of mein kampf
>>25394767These things are usually filled with shit my mother likes - self help books, books on new-age spirituality claptrap, books on yoga. Little kids' picture books, etc. I do appreciate that they exist for the thought behind them even if they're about as useful as a condom machine at an engineering college campus. If I ever finally get around to publishing that 'zine, I think these might be a better way to get people to read them than harassing commuters at the bus exchange.
>>25394935men's adventure fiction used to be far more of a niche. War stories. Cowboy stories. That stuff basically doesn't exist now.
>>25395140>>1 Spanish translation of The Protocols of the Elders of Zionbased
>>25394935Depends on the person. A lot of people weren't into fiction, they'd just read books on topics they were interested in.
Was lucky enough to have a few of these located around a university. Found some nice stuff over the course of a few years. >collected poems of Pope>an academic work on negative theology>a copy of Ulysses, with annotation by the previous owner>a textbook on differential geometry>a brand new copy of Epictetus' HDF>McCarthy's Child of God>Eco's Name of the Rose>some textbook on literary theoriesMaybe there were more but these are the ones off the top of my head.
>>25396699>I fart in empty jelly jars>the next person who opens it gets their fart in my faceAre you sure that's how it works?
im gonna go put some books in these around the neighborhood today
>>25394935The people who used to read Rowling, Stephen King, Stephanie Meyer, etc largely stopped reading in the 2010s and replaced their hobby with social media. Whoever was reading Herman Melville, Tocqueville etc, continues to read because online slop lacks substance compared to those sorts of books.
>>25395168it feels to good to be white living in a white neighborhood and seeing these little neighborhood library exchange boxes that although i may not read the books my neighborhood is reading it encourages reading amongst my community
>>25394767LolThe ones where i used to live were filled with trash like Robert Ludlum and Dean Koontz books.
>>25394935In Britain they were apparently reading the classics through to around 1950 if library records from the time are anything to go by, as well as a lot of philosophy and history. Now they don't read at all.
>>25398951The advent of the iPhone and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
>>25394767free spider surprise inside :D
>>25397915>a copy of Ulysses, with annotation by the previous ownerWhat were their thoughts?
>>25399574Given the change begins in the 50s it's television you have to lay the blame on.
>>25399603>wow>so true king>send it
>>25394767This is like going to a meeting and then getting mad that nobody brought up a subject you wanted to talk aboutTake out the trash and out actual good books in them. Cultivate the culture you want. Problem solved.
>>25399883some people want to read Lisa Gardner though
>>25395168It's the "I live in a rich high trust nigger-free neighborhood" flex. My Eurocuck city turned telephone booths into these and niggers would use them to take shits (more comfy than the sidealk apparently)
>>25394767Be the change you want to see and donate a high quality book
>>25400167there's enough room in the world and inside of these things for boththe reason they fill up with trash is because the people that see them first and most are the grandmas and soccer moms who literally have nothing better to do. it doesn't have to stay that way forever.even if you don't want to donate your own books you can hit up a used book store, or even your library which probably has a "here's a book for 50 cents" display
>>25398750I could see that being the case. In 2005 I took a job at a big company and was in a 100+ person orientation. As an ice breaker we introduced ourselves with name, department, and whatever we’re reading. It was an ocean of Harry Potter, DaVinci Code, and some embarrassed Twilight. I realized that unless Hollywood is shoving a book down peoples’ throats they really aren’t inclined to read. (I was reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson at the time. Nobody else there had heard of it or him,)
>>25401009My first girlfriend told me I'd love Cryptonomicon. Still haven't picked it up. Good?
>>25400213I'm on the south side of Chicago and they're everywhere.>My Eurocuck citymaybe this is why you have that perspective
>>25400278This. There's several in my neighborhood and I peek in them whenever I walk by so I've got a grasp on which are the good ones. The closest one mostly has kids books because there's a family with kids who lives right next to it. There's one a few blocks away that I found some good Russian classics in, so I contribute to that one the most. There's clearly other people doing it the same way I do because each box ends up with it's own sort of theme. Expecting each box to cater to exactly my taste is stupid.
This is my little library haul from this year. Not great; not terrible.
>>25402860starts with R and ends with T
>>25402860bro you're not supposed to keep them forever
>>25401155I’d say so.
>>25402944Upvoted ;)>>25403658Haven't read these yet. Big backlog.
>>25403688>Haven't read these yet. Big backlog.lel people like you are the reason nothing good is ever in there, huh
>>25403693You say that like I didn't put ten copies of The Turner Diaries in return.
