The you see around Denver and other cities are such hopeful little projects.
This Little Free Library was photographed in the Park Hill neighborhood of Denver in 2013. (Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post)
Trade books with your fellow citizens, anonymously, on your way to work, while walking the dog, whenever. They live on residential streets and elsewhere — the one I pass most frequently is the one on the southeast side of History Colorado. That one has a kind of culinary theme most of the time, full of cookbooks. But there are two I pass from time to time in my neighborhood, too, depending on the route I take when walking the dog or going to the store.
But I’ve come to think of the ones I pass as Little Jails For Bad Books.
Among the incarcerated are volumes nobody wants. The second in a series that didn’t earn a home in someone’s library. A passe fad-diet book. Something authored by Newt Gingrich. Basically, books you can’t believe someone bought in the first place.
They are the books that didn’t make the almost-free trolley outside of .
They are the ones that aren’t good enough to regift.
They are paperbacks that no one would have noticed .
Still, I look, almost every time I pass one.
But last week, just as I was getting geared up to write a thing about how the books in Little Free Libraries are never good, I found a book I was interested in. Oddly enough, it was a novel. A collaboration with Stephen Baxter. It turns out it’s the third in a series. Go figure.
Anyway, I broke it out of book jail, and I decided to go and put some good books in that little library. See if they can exert some kind of positive influence on the others.
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