Little Free Library Pointless Prize

[Catedrew]

3-4-2022 – Space shuttle LFL, located on Park Place SE, on the corner of 31st St. SE in Washington DC’s Hillcrest Heights neighborhood.

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[consularrider]

Charter #28608
serendipity
427 N. Elmwood Ave
Oak Park IL 60302
Lat: 41.8940732
Long: -87.7868819

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[Indiana]

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Near 17th Hamlin and Rhode Island NE #withkidSnowLeopard

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

Charter #130241
St. Anne’s Episcopal Church
Lat: 38.96676 Long: -77.35342

This Little Free Library at St. Anne’s Episcopal Church was built by six youth participating in our summer Mission Possible program. The bottom shelf is for children’s books, and the top is for “Grownups & Teens.” The bookmark which hangs from the top (close up in my Strava post) notes that “Reading makes immigrants of us all.”

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[SFrank]

LFL at Lyon Park, 4th and Garfield Sts in Arlington. Mostly adult books.

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[SFrank]

@Catedrew 217631 wrote:

3-4-2022 – Space shuttle LFL, located on Park Place SE, on the corner of 31st St. SE in Washington DC’s Hillcrest Heights neighborhood.

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Super cute!

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[Sophie CW]

LFL at 5311 Manorfield Road in Rockville was well-stocked with a variety of books. I left a kid’s book titled “Third Grade Angels” by Jerry Spinelli.
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[cvcalhoun]

3/4/2022
Left “Murder on Astor Place” at this LFL at 8300 Woodhaven Boulevard in Bethesda.

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[cvcalhoun]

3/5/2022
Left “Red Bones” at this unregistered LFL at Lincoln Park Community Center, 357 Frederick Ave, Rockville.

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[Varsil]

Keep forgetting to post here
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Hope it isn’t too late.

[Kbikeva]

Ugh – did you all see Miss Manners about LFL’s? I wonder if this is happening to some of the perpetually empty ones in our area. People can be such entitled jerks.

Despite this — Have a wonderful last couple of weeks with the game!

Dear Miss Manners: We love having a Little Free Library in our front yard. We enjoy seeing neighbors and passersby look through the books, take one or two, and maybe make a special trip to leave a few that they’re finished with. We’ve received thank-you notes from people who appreciate our little library.

However, a pair of women have started roaming our neighborhood, emptying all the Little Free Libraries into large bags that they carry. It got to the point that our library was being emptied every few days. We saw them this morning, carrying bags stuffed with books, and we confronted them.

They were extremely belligerent. One claims that she takes them to give to her students, meaning she either has several hundred students, or they all read a few dozen books at a time. They also seem to have tastes including beginning-reader books, Stephen King thrillers, romance novels and cookbooks. I’m pretty sure they are all being sold somewhere.

The woman who did most of the talking claims that the word “free” on the library entitles her to take as many books as she wants. I agree that she should take as many books as she wants to read, but she readily admits she is not reading them.

We put a “Closed” sign on our library, but we may try opening it again in the near future with a little sign in the window outlining some rules. But really, I don’t know what to do. It isn’t a police matter, and in the grand scheme of things, it’s not that important, but I can’t stand these two women feeling entitled to take all of the books in the neighborhood.

[SFrank]

LFL
In Reston on the W&OD at Sunrise Valley Rd
Very full of mysteries mostly.
Could use some kid’s
books.

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Charter #88757
2418 Black Cap Lane, Reston VA 20191
Lat: 38.9262137, Long: -77.3531251

A small shack on a post near a house. Books are a variety, but many of them are more poetry related. The LFL also contained a few small hand-made paper books with watercolor abstract drawings, and several packets of “free art.” (Photo in my Strava for today.) Made as a mothers day gift, it is hand made with wood, a plexi-glass door, and has wooden shingles. I left a copy of “Back to the Future” which describes the movie and includes photos from the film.

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[Jessica Hirschhorn]

Rectorville Va

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[camiller]

LFL in Rectortown, VA. It was stuffed full of adult books. (I did not expect to see a LFL out on our ride in the country today.)

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