Little Free Library: Good News
May. 26th, 2014 05:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsThe last time the library got stripped, I put up a sign about the Book Thing and left it there, taking up the entire top shelf.
It has not been stripped again. But I also didn't put all new material in; a book here, a book there. To make sure nobody's too tempted.
The last two times I checked it (last week and just now) not much had gone but it was STUFFED with new books - books on top of books, books crosswise in front of the others. (Alas, in one case that also meant a rain-damaged book. Sucker still leaks.)
This time it wasn't just stuffed with new books, it was SO stuffed that the stuffer had moved the sign to put books under it!
So I've taken the sign down and had my due "the worst in some brings out the best in others" heartwarming moment. Although my heart hasn't been warmed to the point that I threw the sign away, mind you, just brought it back inside!
(A post from the LFL organizers said that the stripping happens in a small fraction of cases. People are apparently taking them to sell as used books. The LFL organizers suggest adding a Little Free Library sticker to each book. Thing is, 95% of my stock comes from the Book Thing, which stamps its books NOT FOR SALE; if a bookstore ignores that, then it's going to ignore a LFL sticker as well.)
Oh, and someone wrote in the new notebook that they'd never heard of BookCrossing before - there's a local who seeds all the nearby Little Frees - and are thrilled by the concept and will join.
It has not been stripped again. But I also didn't put all new material in; a book here, a book there. To make sure nobody's too tempted.
The last two times I checked it (last week and just now) not much had gone but it was STUFFED with new books - books on top of books, books crosswise in front of the others. (Alas, in one case that also meant a rain-damaged book. Sucker still leaks.)
This time it wasn't just stuffed with new books, it was SO stuffed that the stuffer had moved the sign to put books under it!
So I've taken the sign down and had my due "the worst in some brings out the best in others" heartwarming moment. Although my heart hasn't been warmed to the point that I threw the sign away, mind you, just brought it back inside!
(A post from the LFL organizers said that the stripping happens in a small fraction of cases. People are apparently taking them to sell as used books. The LFL organizers suggest adding a Little Free Library sticker to each book. Thing is, 95% of my stock comes from the Book Thing, which stamps its books NOT FOR SALE; if a bookstore ignores that, then it's going to ignore a LFL sticker as well.)
Oh, and someone wrote in the new notebook that they'd never heard of BookCrossing before - there's a local who seeds all the nearby Little Frees - and are thrilled by the concept and will join.
