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Clever, to be sure. I just hope no one vandalizes it.
I am major fan of libraries. So that's way cool, nonetheless.

lark on April 23, 2014 at 12:38 PM

There are little libraries ALL over Seattle. They are great! http://littlefreelibrary.org/ourmap/

Alger on April 23, 2014 at 12:50 PM

You need to get out more, Dan.

kk in seattle on April 23, 2014 at 12:52 PM

There are a couple near Bryan Elementary, one up between Maple Leaf and University Prep....

Seriously Dan, get out in your community more

Cato the Younger Younger on April 23, 2014 at 12:53 PM

There's one in Fremont that's an eighth of an inch smaller all around.

Fnarf on April 23, 2014 at 12:55 PM

there are tons in phinney/greenwood/ballard/fremont/greenlake/wallingford...i wonder how many of them are on that map that @2 mentioned...will go take a look!

my fave is probably the one in the traffic circle on woodland park ave n.

there's also a poetry mailbox along greenwood ave

jezbian on April 23, 2014 at 12:55 PM

I walk past one in Wallingford at least once a week

Will in Seattle on April 23, 2014 at 1:00 PM

So tell me, Dan, why does "tiny" have to be synonymous with "cute", as if that's a necessary comparison? Why even mention size at all? That's exactly what whites dudes do when they fetishize Asian people, for example, as if they live to be cutefied sex objects for your pleasure. You talk from a position of white male sizeist privilege when you reinforce this attitude.

ragu on April 23, 2014 at 1:03 PM

I thought it was cute because it matched the house.

Greg Barnes on April 23, 2014 at 1:49 PM

Seems like these would be prime targets for teenagers to blow up on Halloween.

Gern Blanston on April 23, 2014 at 1:58 PM

Is ragu @8 a satirical account to dig on the ultimate buzzkill troll raku?

That's how I read that.

If so; well done.

If not; well, I'm done.

Bored@School on April 23, 2014 at 2:04 PM

ragu dear, are you an angerbot?

Catalina Vel-DuRay on April 23, 2014 at 2:08 PM

Columbia City is also rife with tiny free libraries. Bonus points in cute for matching the house, though!

genevieve on April 23, 2014 at 2:11 PM

It's tiny, but is it really cute? The Sherlock Holmes of Conan Doyle would say that because it's got this appearance of innocence, it's a place of potentially unspeakably horrible criminal activity. ("The Solitary Cyclist," I think.)

So sure, it's tiny, but there might be a cannibalistic serial killer in there.

seatackled on April 23, 2014 at 2:13 PM

Thanks, @2 for the URL! this is a WONDERFUL idea. I am so glad Dan pointed it out to us.

BG on April 23, 2014 at 2:31 PM

@8, troll too obvious, Raku. Your game is up. A box with books in it is an Asian sex object now? Uh-huh.

Though, now that you mention it, I do want to have sex with that thing. 私はあなたのドーマーウィンドウで性交したい、赤ちゃん.

Fnarf on April 23, 2014 at 2:55 PM

@8 http://i.imgur.com/mNjvQe1.gif

pragmatic on April 23, 2014 at 3:09 PM

That was pretty good, Fnarf, but they don't use the word "baby" like that in Japanese.

on April 23, 2014 at 3:48 PM

There are three within four blocks of my house in west seattle.

espato on April 23, 2014 at 4:33 PM

Thank you tiny librarians
Thank you contrarians
Thank you ragu
Thank you moon
Thank you cow jumping over the moon.

Ophian on April 23, 2014 at 5:01 PM

There are two in my south Everett (Silver Lake) neighborhood. Borrow a book. Lend a book if you've got an extra.

Frank Blethen's vodka distiller on April 23, 2014 at 5:41 PM

A library....FOR ANTS!!!

Gern Blanston on April 23, 2014 at 6:22 PM

I know I'm a very grumpy person, but the Little Free Library movement annoys me. They're ubiquitous in neighborhoods in which almost everyone has enough money to buy books and if they don't they have access to one of the world's greatest public library systems.

You want to put something cute in your lawn, fine. It's not a public service to stick your old paperbacks out there. Donate them to the actual library.

dwightmoodyforgetsthings on April 23, 2014 at 6:30 PM

@23--Does the library want them? The Friends of the Library might want them for the used book sale, but please don't just take some books you're done with to the library.

fruitbat on April 23, 2014 at 9:40 PM

16th avenue plain or 16th avenue east?

scary tyler moore on April 23, 2014 at 11:12 PM

@24- Yes they do want them. If they don't add them to the circulating collection they put popular paperbacks in the non-cataloged paperbacks section and if they don't want them there then they sell them.

dwightmoodyforgetsthings on April 24, 2014 at 10:49 AM

Madison Wisconsin has had these for years. Some of the shit-heads in local government have made noises about banning them.

kwodell on April 24, 2014 at 2:51 PM

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