Whats the best book youve found in one of these?

>>24457203 (OP)
a book about ancient celts that proved atlantis was in doggerland before it submerged in 5000 BC

>>24457217
Whats the title?

>>24457203 (OP)
The White Plague by Frank Hebert

>>24457203 (OP)
The Turner Diaries

>>24457203 (OP)
The Book of Mormon with full illustrations

>>24457203 (OP)
Heart of Darkness. I also found Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson and Catcher in the Rye at the same time, but quickly found out they weren't good books.

illustrated Arnold Toynbee, Volume 1

>>24457836
hey I have that book on my shelf but never read it. Is it worth a read?

>>24457203 (OP)
I've never found anything good in a community library. The one near my house
started off by banning political books, which extended to religion, which
extended to history deemed offensive, and so forth. I walk past it from time to
time, it tends to only hold a handful of YA novels and children's stories.

I left a copy of Moby-Dick that vanished the following day, I hope a kid got it
before the property owner seized it.

>>24457203 (OP)
Never found anything good in those.

Did find Catch-22, The Stranger, a civics textbook and a book on literary criticism at a soup kitchen once when I was dealing with a prolonged period of being mentally unwell.

>>24457203 (OP)
The idiot by Dostoevsky, probably

>>24457850
Yes, it’s less cerebral than Dune, but more fun.

>>24457203 (OP)
rousseau - the social contract
lowry - under the volcano

>>24457217
Wasn't this the book some guy shilled on 4chan years ago? I forgot its name, but I read the preface on Archive, and it was made for his kids, which was cute.

>>24457203 (OP)
who thought of these things
instead of "come see my library" it's "here's my books I feel like leaving unprotected in the rain lmao"
it's for garbage chik lit and mein kampf trolls clearly

>>24458122
Nah, there’s sometimes good stuff there.

Mint condition hardcover illustrated Hobbit with case.

>>24457203 (OP)
The ones I put there - huckleberry finn, alice in wonderland, aesop's fables, an OCT of the Odyssey, crappy POD Latin Ovid. Have never found anything worthwhile.

>>24458175
Even if it doesn't get looted and/or replaced by garbage that bookstores can barely give away, rain+humidity will just destroy anything in there.

>>24457203 (OP)
the poet and the donkey by may sarton
it was an enjoyable read

>>24458122
picrel. I can't remember the best book I've donated. They tend to disappear immediately.

>>24458250
Anon, you know they are constructed on a certain way to avoid those things right? you haven't seen one irl but you had to post that still

>>24458915
No, he's right. I've checked out a fair few of these, and I wouldn't have taken anything even if there was something worth reading cause it was all so soggy and disgusting.

spiders and sometimes weed.

Pic related caught my eye and turned out to be a pretty good read, even as someone who's not into the sport. For more serious stuff, I was pleasantly surprised to find a copy of Auerbach's Mimesis.

>>24458209
bitchin'

>>24457203 (OP)
This weekend, I found these two photography books of old hippies at music festivals. They listed on ebay for about $50 each. There's also a guy who's in a soccer-themed book of the month club in my neighborhood, and those sell for $10 each

>>24457203 (OP)
got all my french plays and classics in one of those. dumped some of my stuff ill never read again to balance it out a bit

>>24457203 (OP)
Brave new world
A few decent dutch books
I've seen in the name of the rose a few times

>>24458250
Somehow, I’ve never seen rain destroy the contents of a little free library and there are dozens of them in my local area.

>>24457203 (OP)

Literally nothing.

Visited a dozen of them in Toronto, and came up blank everytime. Just computer books from the early 2000s, Rice/Cookson/Clancy crap, and seasonal supermarket brochures marketing products by giving away free recipes.

"It's like finding money on the ground in China". Now I understand this saying.

>>24459193
It is better to target rich neighborhoods, densely popular inner city young and "vibrant" suburbs on the come up, college towns, and ones outside any book store. Ninety percent of everything is shit, which includes neighborhoods and the little libraries within. But I've had amazing luck targeting little libraries registered to the pin map online by going to ones near Cornell, the nice side of Rochester, Case Western, Ohio University, one near John Hopkins, and a few in WV near the new Natl Park. Filled with interesting new publications, cool medical or history textbooks, old sci fi, reliably a few classics, good stuff!

>>24457203 (OP)
A hardcover of Gravity's Rainbow. It was stuffed with old dry leaves though

Got 2 love Amherst

>>24457203 (OP)
A mint Everyman's Library edition of Tristam Shandy.

>>24459193
>It's like finding money on the ground in China
what does this mean

I rub my dick on those.

>>24457203 (OP)
I once found a signed, first-edition copy of "All Quiet on the Western" front, in near-mint condition. I took it to an appraiser, who nearly shat himself, and we worked to get it sold. I made enough money for a down payment on a house. One of luckiest scores of my life.

>>24459958
"All Quiet on the Western *Front"
Pardon the typo.

>>24459595
you know how they is

>>24458331
That book's a bear
>>24457203 (OP)
Marco Polo's Travels

>>24457203 (OP)
First edition of Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos, no dust jacket, but signed.

>>24457203 (OP)

I have never found anything of any value in any of them. I have deposited old, inoffensive things that I don't want anymore in them a few times, on the very slight non-zero possibility that someone might want them. But I understand that the activity is really just throwing things in the trash with extra steps.

>>24457203 (OP)
I check them but I’ve never seen a good book in one
It’s kid books, self help books, and boomer action or romance sloppa

>>24459193
You reminded me, they also contain Excel User Guide 2005

New captcha is odd

>>24457203 (OP)
Copy of Goethe's Faust with the original German on one side of each page and an English translation on the other. Perfekt für einen Deutschlerner wie mich!

Nathan Ficks memoir, which formed half the basis of Generation Kill. Had watched the series for the first time not long before, so grabbed it fast.
And also a 1st Edition of Basil Lubbocks Colonial Clippers. Not everyone's cup of tea but I'm a motherfucker for nautical history

>>24457203 (OP)
Ivanhoe and King Rat by James Clavell

>>24458209
you lucky bitch

>>24459234
real life is getting weirder

I always vacillate between thinking “wow everyone in this neighborhood is retarded based on this book selection” and “people on,u put their unwanted garbage in these”. I once put an extremely used critique of pure reason in one after I got a replacement copy, for the lols.

>>24457203 (OP)
A history of Canada by someone named Careless. Albeit I never finished it or returned it, and I don't know where it is. But thanks for reminding me.

>>24457203 (OP)
So I walked past one of those today, took a peek inside, and—no surprise—it was overflowing with awful, failed romance novels. I mean, let’s be real: if they were any good, they wouldn’t be free. Safe to say I won’t be cracking open anything from one of those feel-good liberal hugboxes.

Might even drive by later and swap the contents for the most wildly sexist and racist books I can find—just to see if anyone notices the sudden shift in tone.

Anyone find anything interesting in there that wasn't a book? One of the ones in my neighborhood gets the randomest shit like a pack of playing cards or unused needles or VHS tapes with halloween specials taped from tv

>>24461720
>the most wildly sexist and racist books I can find
No, I don't think anyone would notice the tone shift from awful romance to awful romance

>>24461830
Kek

>>24461416
>King Rat by James Clavell

Dang, me too. That's weird.

>>24461742
A Dean Martin Celebrity Roast dvd box set. Boomer handiwork, I figure.

>>24457203 (OP)
Some greek tragedy collections, the power of the center by Rudolf Arheim, as a man thinketh by James Allen, a shakespeare collection, an english literature anthology, most from one specific box

I am using these boxes as a setup for a meet cute in my next clit lit money maker.

>>24457914
>Did find Catch-22, The Stranger, a civics textbook and a book on literary criticism
OP was asking about good books

>>24457203 (OP)
Found one on gurdjieff, in french though

>>24457203 (OP)

Hardcovers of Fathers and Crows and Argall by Vollmann

>>24458122
>I feel like leaving unprotected in the rain
Do you not understand how a building stays dry?

>>24457846
Book's way too big. Uncomfortable read.

>>24457203 (OP)
There are two in Orono, Maine, that are lovely. One is always full of children's books and art supplies; the other is always stocked with the classics. I picked up (and returned upon completion, of course) the Canterbury Tales and Tristram Shandy. God bless whoever it is that maintains them--if any anons find themselves in central ME for some reason, take a stroll around and see if you can find them.

>>24457203 (OP)
Archie comic book
Surprisingly, they make ’em like they used to

I found something by Salman Rushdie, that kid’s book he wrote.
(Yes I raided a children’s little free library, there was some good shit in it)

Not sure but the book I'm reading rn is from one of those, Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Mark Twain is great

>>24457203 (OP)
I’ve only seen a few of these irl and there has never been anything good in them. It was always either
-mediocre children’s books
-some fiction book probably targeted towards women
-shitty self help books

>>24457203 (OP)
I have found literally thousands (I think about 3400) books, mostly non-fiction, in Philadelphia. University City is filled - you can pass by the same 6 or 7 free libraries every week and continuously collect great books on history, literary classics, linguistics, hard sciences, religion, spirituality, cookbooks, etc.

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>>24458250
does it have a rubber seal around the door?

Mostly trash self help books and absolutely ancient textbooks, but one time there was a stately volume of collected novels by H.G. Wells. I wasn't reading fiction at the time, so I tried to give it to my nephew, but he's "not a reader." So I ended up dropping it off at a different community library box by a middle school. But honestly I wish I had it now.

>>24464925
I put a lot in those exact little libraries

>>24457846
yeah there's no way a coffee table book fits in those things.
they're already packed to max with Danielle Steel "novels"

>>24457203 (OP)
Found a copy of The Princess Bride in one.

>>24459958
>And everyone clapped

>>24459234
MA?
If so, rented a car from Boston once to check out the ED house and Evergreens; on way back stopped in Concord, walked around the cemetery as well as Walden Pond (smaller than I thought it'd be)
Had lunch at a little noodle joint in downtown A; it was pretty good

I found Chekhov's short stories in one of these during the pandemic

took it to a nearby park bench to read but ultimately put it back because I thought it could be more useful for someone else

sometimes I still think about that little book

>>24461742
I found a Lady Gaga vinyl record in one amd sold it on discogs for $80

Earthsea: the First Four Books.

>>24457850
Nothing FH is worth reading except Dune.

>>24466239
Nice, I don't think any of the ones around me would be big enough to fit a record.

>>24459234
You live there? I’m a professor at UMass. Are you a student? I haven’t found very much around the area but good for you

When I see these I put pamphlets in them detailing the crimes of the jew.

>>24461742
Indiana Jones trilogy boxset on vhs

>>24459227
>It was stuffed with old dry leaves though
You got Pynchon'd

>>24457986

>"Oh boy I found The Idiot in a Little free library!"
>It was just my reflection in the glass panel of the door.

>>24459234
lol wats the book

lol i was at catalina island for like a day. cozy read to the ferry back

>>24464960
God bless, anon - I have found so many jewels there, especially between 2018-2023 - the last two years sort of sucked, not sure why.