Book Corners: A Global Map of Neighborhood Book Exchange Spots
Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots
I explore Book Corners, a community-driven map showcasing diverse free book exchange spots worldwide. From stone niches in Pistoia to repurposed phone boxes in Habrough, these hidden libraries foster local connection. The platform highlights creative sharing spaces like the Flemingate Little Sharing Library and the Midway Free Library and Garden, inviting everyone to discover and contribute to their neighborhood's literary landscape.
A small free-book exchange is built into a rounded stone-framed niche in a pale yellow wall, giving it the feel of a tiny neighborhood library.
- matijsvzuijlen
This is a nice idea but a lot of the OSM tiles show as blocked due to lack of a Referer.
- stevetron
The first thing I noticed: do people like wet books? The way a lot of those libraries are designed, all the books are going to be ruined at the first rainstorm.
The Library of Congress doesn't keep a copy of everything. It doesn't even try. I was shocked to learn this, as a child growing up I had been told the Library of Congress kept a copy of everything.
- smokel
Most of the books in these community libraries are really crappy. I would assume that people:
a. Toss out books at home they don't like and bring them to these libraries
b. Take interesting books from the libraries, and leave the bad ones
Any ideas on how to improve that?
- lucasban
You might see if you can incorporate the data from https://littlefreelibrary.org/map/ as well
- konsalexee
Nice idea i even found on my city in Sweden! How to you get the data for those exchange spots? Maybe it was in the website and i missed it