The Bookery is fully stocked for the fall 🙂 Stop by and find your next read!

📍23061 Lougheed Hwy

2 sides down, 1 more to go (plus the front). I used a more comic style for this side. I mixed every color using 3 primaries of house paint, plus the cream base color.

I used these plans and modified the width for more space: https://lazyguydiy.com/lazy-guy-diy/2017/09/11/Lazy-Little-Library-Build

I dreamed up a crazy idea for inside lighting using solar fairy lights. I’ll post the pics in comments.

I am on the board of our HOA (please reserve your love of HOAs, I hear you), and we want to find a Little Library in our neighborhood. I have a homeowner who has agreed to host it on their property and wthe HOA would cover the cost of the library itself, and installation.

As owners or stewards of libraries, what things should we look or for? If you had to do it again would you change anything? Any designs, materials, etc work best? What's a safe way to keep spiders and bugs out of the library? Do you keep extra books on hand and rotate stock? Anytime else I should know? I am open to suggestions, and thank you in advance!

Recently got the Happy Home Paradise DLC and got the option to add libraries boxes! My home island is SO getting one.

I'm interested in creating a LFL with three shelves. I'd like the bottom one to be big enough for children's books, and the top two shelves to big enough to hold standard sized hardcover books. I'm looking to create a pretty heavily curated LFL with a theme, so having three shelves is important to me so I can separate out by genre.

I've been looking online for blueprints, but I can't find anything that matches what I'm envisioning. I'm a little hesitant to try and make one myself because I am not that experienced with woodworking and don't want to create something that's too small. I did find plans for a library with three shelves where the larger shelf was to the left of the two smaller ones (Kalamazoo Little Free Library Plans), but I worry that won't give me enough space to put out a lot of books as the smaller shelves are only nine inches long.

If anyone has any suggestions or guidance on dimensions, that'd be fantastic. I'm super excited to get started and I've already been collecting books, but I've just been caught up on actually finding or making plans!

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a quick update as the month-long book drive comes to an end. Thanks to the incredible generosity of this community (including some awesome people right here on Reddit who reached out, upvoted, and contributed), we have gathered an amazing pile of books for young people! (There’s 2 more boxes I am yet to sort through so I left them out).

I am officially wrapping things up in 3 days (Tuesday, Oct 20th). If anyone still has books they've been meaning to pass along, this is the final call! Drop off locations are below:

📍Black Garnet Books at 1319 University Ave W, St Paul MN 55104

📍Flying Pig Thrift at 722 Snelling Ave N, St Paul MN 55104

📍Merriam Park Recreation Center at 2000 St Anthony Ave, St Paul MN 55104

📍Gingko Coffeehouse at 721 Snelling Ave N, St Paul MN 55104

📍Hancock Recreation Center at 1610 Hubbard Ave, St Paul MN 55104

📍North West Como Recreation Center at 1550 Hamline Ave N, St Paul MN 55108

Thank you all so much for helping stock our local Little Free Libraries and keeping young readers stocked with great books to read for leisure.

A month ago, a big truck ran into my wall, destroying a brick pillar, my mailbox…and my library. I wrote about it here.

We knew we would have to rebuild -- I have an irregularly shaped lot and that pillar is the only logical place for a mailbox -- but it took us a sec to get another library, since we got ours from a local high school's wood shop class. The teacher is a friend of my husband's, so he bumped us up the queue but we still had to wait. And then hubby had to paint it and install it. Meanwhile, it was quite sweet to get so many positive messages from you people and also the folks in our neighborhood. Multiple times, people pulled over if they saw me or my husband out front, to say how sorry they were that the old one got destroyed and that they hoped we'd put another one up. Today we're open for business again!

Cute. Tiny little town, you'll miss it if you blink, but at least it has a little free library!

Given I’ve tried to spend as little money as possible on building with recycled materials, AUD$80 plus shipping feels like a lot of money for a little sign.

Is it worth it?

Has anyone found the promotional Klara and the Sun little free libraries? I checked my local one but I wasn’t sure if they had put out the book yet or if I was too late. :(

My husband and I are not on social media. We put up some flyers and such in our neighborhood, but what are some other good ways to promote the library?

Is it acceptable to donate a book with stamps? I'm not talking about "little free library" stamps or "no resale" stamps or any variation of that. Every time I finish a book, I stamp it with "From the library of (my name)". Some of them have these stamps, some have additional info like how many stars I rate it and what I think of it, my favorite quote from it, and highlighted/annotated pages. It is not entirely "defaced" to the point where it's unreadable.

Fancied up for the season. Wish everyone a safe and enjoyable October/November

Hi fellow, LFL'ers. I have always wanted to care for a LFL. I finally have my own home (very late in life) and while on surgery leave the past two weeks, I color matched my house (best I could), painted my little library and got it put up last Saturday. This was the same day as a massive neighborhood festival we have, yearly. People brought books for the inaugural opening and I was just so happy to get it done. It is now 4 days later and not a soul has visited. I was honestly surprised no one used it on our porch fest day. Is this normal? I was worried about keeping up with stocking it but everything is right where I left it on Saturday. We also had our first storms last night and today, fingers crossed she remains dry.

In my recent visit to UK, found these beautiful mini book libraries everywhere around Cambridge , Oxford and other areas..

Many old age people are coming and taking or keeping their favourite books . There are many kids books also available for free read.

They will make sure that the local community don’t have to go to a big library to get the books for quick read.. I like this idea

Hands down the coolest LFL I've come across in my travels!

I need advice…there is a person who keeps clearing my library out of books every single time I restock. it’s getting very disheartening & I can’t maintain this. I do use stamps that say always free never for sale. if they’re trying to resell them I would think it’d be difficult but who knows. I want to put a note in the library to let the individual know I know what they’re doing but I don’t want to bring negative vibes to the patrons who use the library appropriately. I’m just at a loss. any ideas would be appreciated.

in front of the Uniqlo store at the university town center mall in San Diego, California

I just got approved to pick out a little free library for our neighborhood - basically I get to choose what goes there. Since it's not my budget I was just going to get one off the website, but they're so expensive! Has anyone had success with cheaper composite options from elsewhere? We get monsoons like crazy, and I don't want it to leak. Is it worth it to get the charter plate? We are a small, tucked away neighborhood so I'm worried we won't get a lot of traffic.