We’ve visited LFLs all over DC and in multiple states while traveling. Not all are registered but there is an app that maps those that are registered so they’re easy to find. I’ve seen some that are empty, some full of themed content that must have to be highly maintained by the owner. I’ve never had to step onto someone’s private property to reach one - they have always been reachable by the sidewalk. I’ve never seen one vandalized, or used as a trash can.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not taking mine down but we honestly don't get enough foot traffic for it to work.

We’re on a corner. Ours gets a lot.

Weird thing, we ran out of the big stack of “old” books we had to get rid of, and only put about 1-2 books a month in it now, but other people drop stuff off in it all the time. It’s almost always at least half-full

That's how it should work. People stuffing them with old junk nobody wants makes them unsuccessful.

really? that is really sad---

our neighborhood in Milwaukee had them every few blocks, near UWM and they were awesome. there were definitely just books in them but the neighborhood is really nice basically Mcclean inhabitants but in a walkable historic neighborhood. They were popular in pet worth and Logan circle as well. We haven't been back home for a bit.. are they not popular anymore??

They are a fad. Maybe the fad is ending.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have one but I remember hearing that resellers will visit the LFL that are registered.

And so if you have an LFL don’t register it - so it’s for readers, not resellers.

Oh, I didn’t know that these libraries could even be registered.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the first time Ive heard of a little free library. Are they really that popular? How do they work? Is it mainly children’s books?

Have you been freeze-dried the last 20 years? Or in prison?

I know there was an elementary school around here that had something like this, but I didn’t know people did this in their own front yards. How does this work?

Anonymous wrote:This is the first time Ive heard of a little free library. Are they really that popular? How do they work? Is it mainly children’s books?

Have you been freeze-dried the last 20 years? Or in prison?

This is the first time Ive heard of a little free library. Are they really that popular? How do they work? Is it mainly children’s books?

It can seem odd, that you are inviting kids on to your property.

An extreme example, a lady in our neighborhood put out soda and chips for delivery drivers. She lived 7-8 homes from the elementary school. She videoed the elementary kids who took items. Posted on the neighborhood facebook page that parents should keep kids off her property, the items were for delivery drivers, and she would soon be putting out Easter treats. The police were outside her house the next week, around school start time.

Teens have been hiding gummies in them.

Nope. We have a couple we pass regularly and they are all still up and running and normal.

Anonymous wrote:Targeted for what????

Harassment. Property destruction.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not taking mine down but we honestly don't get enough foot traffic for it to work.

We’re on a corner. Ours gets a lot.

Weird thing, we ran out of the big stack of “old” books we had to get rid of, and only put about 1-2 books a month in it now, but other people drop stuff off in it all the time. It’s almost always at least half-full

How is that weird? That's literally the point of the LFLs.

I’m on the paranoid side and I would be worried someone would use it for a drug exchange. That’s the liability I’d be worried about.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Targeted for what????

This is what I was wondering about!

She didn’t say. She just said “targeted”.

I got banned for 3 days for allegedly promoting violence. I asked for a copy of the msg when I appealed and all I did was describe a traffic incident that everyone on the local sub was talking about. I also said the police had told a family member who reported it they wanted to hear from any possible victims. It was auto-flagged. I wonder if anyone ever wins a reddit appeal, this was not the local mod.

Redditors don't make mistakes.