Parents stuffing the Little Free Libraries

We have a lot of those "Little Free Libraries" here. You take a book and give a book or take a book and give it back. They worked great for a while, until breeders found them and now are using them to jam pack them with thin sprog books. Sprogs read though these in a flash, collect a pile of them, and then breeders drop them off at these free libraries. This takes up a lot of space and others putting adult books in there do not have room. The sprog books stay where they are for a long time.

The other day I emptied one of these libraries of kid books and was going to take the whole pile to the Children's hospital, near where dh works and looked that up online. You have to drive deep into the worst part of the city to get rid of the books as people not visiting a sprog can't be in that section of the hospital and they make it clear that the books can't have "religious themes" as breeder parents will flip their shit if their cancer kid sees a Buddhist book. So I went back to the same little library and it is stuffed again with more sprog books, little room for regular books and it will probably take quite some time for it to empty out so adults can use it. So I will dump the sprog books at the kids section of the library and not do that again.

Donating to the library sounds like a good idea.

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I want to pick up a bus full of unruly kids and feed them gummi bears and crack, then turn them loose in Hobby Lobby to ransack the place. They will all be wearing T shirts that say "You Could Have Prevented This."

I've been wondering about these little pop-up libraries. I'm looking into starting one of my own as a way to get rid of extra books I have.

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I hear that our public library is stopping accepting book donations! I know they recently ended the annual book sale with a conference room of books still there! The people staffing the sale were calling out "buy a book get 2 free--heck get as many as you want free!". People just don't want actual, paper books anymore I guess. I sure hope they don't disappear completely during the next 20 or so years (as long as I'll likely still be alive!).

I wouldn't be surprised if libraries do vanish within the next 20 years, so much of their content today can be accessed online. Can see it becoming more so over the next 20 years.

If anyone sets up one of these things, they are really cool, but in the summer breeders may show up and pack it with the skinny books. We found a "Books for Africa" bin around here and got rid of them that way or libraries should take them.

That's a shame. I've thought about setting one up here, but I was afraid of exactly this sort of thing-- that it would attract breeders and their spawn.

I've seen the little library shelves before and think they're a good idea. Haven't seen the problem you mentioned, but hogging all shelf space is rude. If they have that many books that Junior has outgrown, take them to a thrift shop.

One house in our neighborhood built their Little Library dedicated to children's books. They even have a sign indicating it is only for children's books & not to put any adult reading material into it.

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One house in our neighborhood built their Little Library dedicated to children's books. They even have a sign indicating it is only for children's books & not to put any adult reading material into it.

I would make a Little Library and dedicate it to adult oriented books only and put out a sign stating "any children's books placed in here will be burned". I know that will get their knickers in a wad and I'm sure there will be a few "vigilante parents" determined to teach me my place in their version of hierarchy.

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One house in our neighborhood built their Little Library dedicated to children's books. They even have a sign indicating it is only for children's books & not to put any adult reading material into it.

Time for some Nabokov & deSade....