I was thinking the other day (while passing the Friends of the Library book sale building), that many people advise getting your book out there by donating it to libraries, which is problematic – library donations often just end up at book sales like that (and then sometimes in dumpsters from there); libraries have limited space and the books they keep on their shelves are curated, and so on. There is a five-post guest article on this in my archives – http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/tag/info:+library and scroll down a couple posts – by eseme.
But!
Little Free Libraries have none of that, including a budget. If you had a map of their libraries in your area and a stack of your books, you could seed them throughout the area. Road trip and slide ’em in on the way. Like very map-based suburban/urban geocaching? “Oh, we’re going to be in boston, let’s check out their little free libraries while we’re there.”
…I need a book to drop off at the local LFL.
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That is a great idea! Also, some coffee shops have “take it or leave it” areas where people share books. But I am not sure there is a website for that. There is also BookCrossing. http://www.bookcrossing.com/
I just learned about BookCrossing! One of the people in my Nano region is on it!
It is neat, and gives you the ability to see where your book went! How cool!
Ooh! Book-caching. /looks at boxes of books filling up dining room thoughtfully/
Yes, you apparently print barcodes, put them in your books, and then can scan them into the Bookcrossing site. You then get to say where you left it, and people who find it, if they go to the site with the barcode, can enter it and say where they left it… The idea is that you get to see where it travels. Of course, if someone keeps it…. but people leave books in Cafes and other such places and then see where they go. I believe that is the idea of Bookcrossing.