The thing I enjoy the most about these little free libraries is that they’re small, simple things that rid a neighborhood of the feeling of separation and loneliness. Anyone can set them up and anyone can use them. They’re community building and I love that.

And yet, I know that I personally would never use one. I use an e-reader and most of the books I’ve seen in them don’t intrigue me.

So does anyone know of any similar projects that can be used for community building? Something I find similar is the typewriter mailbox I learned of from a Strong Towns blog post: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/12/10/the-typewrite...

Unfortunately welding a typewriter to a mailbox isn’t as simple as buying or building a wooden box on a post.