Has anyone here hosted a Little Free Library?

You would have to monitor that, for sure.

We are going ahead with ours; the structure was ordered today and we've contracted with a fellow who will set the post (and do the preliminary checking with the city utilities about digging, etc.)

I'll post updates in this thread as the project develops. This is the model we're getting; it's available now rather than having to be built to order, and we like the idea of having the additional seed exchange.

That's nice that you're helping to maintain it. According to the website, each LFL is supposed to have a person listed as its steward. Wonder if this one somehow got orphaned?

Anyway, very nice that you and your roommate are watching over it.

I'm quite curious, too, about the free books they send with the boxes. We figure it will not be an issue keeping it stocked -- lots of books around here.

Yes, they do come stocked, but for one thing, you may not want to host those particular books but have a different focus. For another, yes, I do think there must be attrition to the stock because some people will take and not replace, no doubt! I actually hope they do because I love the idea of being able to seed and weed the books. So to speak.

So our Little Free Library was delivered a few days ago, and today it was installed on a nice sturdy four by four post in the corner of the front yard. Most of the books they sent us -- all of them really when you count a couple of MG titles -- are kids' books, so I beefed it up with a couple of novels, a how-to book on organizing, and a couple of poetry collections, because I hope adults will use it also.

There is a drawer for seed sharing and a seed and recipe exchange which I am not at all sure how to organize, so I put a note in it saying "Watch this space. Seed Exchange coming soon!" If nothing else, I will just put some seed packets in there to start. The organization sent us quite a generous selection of excellent seeds but they are all for a summer vegetable garden and so not very useful here at this time of year. It's far too late to start tomatoes and cucumbers!

But that's just cake icing; the book exchange is the main course here and I am so delighted to be doing this! Already two neighbors stopped by to chat and have a look; the next door neighbor is thinking of what books she might contribute. She told me one of the neighborhood kids already stopped by and was looking at it.

One really good thing is the children's books have mixed race illustrations and characters too, presumably, though I didn't do more than glance at them. This neighborhood is probably at least half African-American, so I was glad to see those illustrations on the kids books.

Friend of mine here is going to post some pictures I took soon as she gets around to it. (Since I am not able to do that, she offered.)

Thanks!

Well, I have visions of stocking it with AWers' titles....

And the LFL is already being used. A book of poems and a novel I put in there have been taken and another book added, as well as some magazines.

Again this morning there have been books taken and other books added. I'm kinda serious about seeding the thing with some AW members' works, too. That's next on my agenda for this project.

Tiakall, that's super! It's too bad the school board's three are not being used. I've been conscious already here that having too many books in there is a deterrent rather than an attracting factor. Makes it look unused and also there is no room for someone to add a book if they should choose to (or if they are returning to add something after taking a book earlier.) Ours is a bit too full right now so later on I am going to "weed" a little I think.