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Backfill · 2024

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Community Library Boxes

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Editorial photo of a small wooden free library box mounted on a post in a residential front yard, the glass door slightly open showing paperback spines in various colors, fallen leaves on the ground around the base.

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Little free libraries that people put in their front yards are a simple idea that just works, a wooden box on a post where anyone can take a book or leave 1. Nobody runs it and nobody keeps track. Books cycle through on their own and the selection is always weird and specific to the neighborhood.