Not sure if you have this kind of private initiative in your country. Here is a pic-nic area overlooking the sea, and someone has built and installed an open cabinet protected from the main winds, where anyone can bring a book he/she wants to make available to others. Anyone else is welcome to read it there, or to take it back home, provisionally or forever. It is totally informal, there is no registration of any kind and no fee. We have several boxes like this in most villages, in places like sport halls or in front of the village store, and it works very well, with a lot of book circulation and very little vandalism. This comes on top of the public libraries.
Yes we have this in Switzerland too , with books and also with kids toys.
I love the idea and use it a lot : as a big reader I use to put my books in those cabins, and my daughters use to take a lot of books from there.
It made me smile to see the sign “don’t pee” on the box 😂…
In the UK there are still some of the now-defunct red public telephone kiosks standing and it's not unusual to see them, having been adopted by locals, re-purposed in this manner.
It's a great idea and a rather charming testament to community spirit.
Love your photo with the sea and the table in the background. We do have something like this. It is a room in our community center. Residents just donate books and people borrow them. Like yours it is totally informal with no checkout system. We get so many donations that once per month we take some away and pass them on to a literacy center, our city library, and to a new community a short distance away that is just starting up a library.
I love the idea and use it a lot : as a big reader I use to put my books in those cabins, and my daughters use to take a lot of books from there.
It made me smile to see the sign “don’t pee” on the box 😂…
It's a great idea and a rather charming testament to community spirit.