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Setting up a little book exchange? No need to pay to have your public bookcase registered in a proprietary directory when you can simply add it to #OpenStreetMap — a map that’s actually free (even if this one doesn’t say so in the name) 📚🌍

You can e.g. use #MapComplete to add it easily 👉 https://mapcomplete.org/bookcases.html?

#BookSharing #FreeTheMaps #OSM #FreeLittleLibrary

Zoek de verschillen 🧐
Hints in de alttekst (niet eerst spieken)

Edit: Langs 't Spaarne in Haarlem, juni 2025

#Minibiebmaandag #Minibieb #FreeLittleLibrary

Foto 1. Dubbel kastje, twee paarse deurtjes, twee planken met boeken. De bovenste plank is goed gevuld, onderin is wat leger en staan/liggen boeken schuin.

De deurtjes zijn dicht

Foto 2. Zelfde biebje als foto 1. Nu zijn de deurtjes open en is de inhoud te zien

Foto 3. Zelfde als foto 1, maar nu is een boek weg en staan er twee andere voor in de plaats

Calling all #streetlibrary / #freelittlelibrary / #Minibieb enthusiasts!

Submit your photographs by email (post@papertrail.world). Include some information about the location and how you relate to it. We accept submissions from anywhere in the world!

Your submissions will feed into our ongoing research into the aesthetic and functional aspects of contemporary street library culture in the Netherlands and beyond. This research will serve as the basis for a forthcoming print publication.

Submit your street Library photographs! Have you come across an intriguing street library or book sharing box in your neighbourhood or during your travels? Share it with us!Submit your street Library photographs! Have you come across an intriguing street library or book sharing box in your neighbourhood or during your travels? Share it with us!

Cable cabinet Doll house, Fridge, Pendulum clock, ...

Former phone booth repurposed as street library

Send us your photographs by email (post [at] papertrail.world). Include some information about the location and how you relate to it. We accept submissions from anywhere in the world!

Your submissions will feed into our ongoing research into the aesthetic and functional aspects of contemporary street library culture in the Netherlands and beyond. This research will serve as the basis for a forthcoming print publication.

Street libraries, or Minibiebs, as they are dubbed in Dutch, are a fascinating and often under-appreciated piece of urban technology. While some of them are built by schools, cultural institutions or even train station architects, the vast majority of Minibiebs are installed and maintained by individual volunteers.

Ranging from repurposed plastic crates or old pieces of furniture to elaborate, purpose built constructions, most Minibiebs are placed on public land. Owing to relatively generous spatial regulations, which tend to allow homeowners and tenants in most Dutch municipalities to make use of the space in front of their house, as long as it does not interfere with foot traffic, the hurdles for placing your own Minibieb are quite low.

#minibieb #streetlibrary #freelittlelibrary #photography #opencall #callforsubmissions

Send us your photographs by email (post [at] papertrail.world). Include some information about the location and how you relate to it. We accept submissions from anywhere in the world!

Your submissions will feed into our ongoing research into the aesthetic and functional aspects of contemporary street library culture in the Netherlands and beyond. This research will serve as the basis for a forthcoming print publication.

Street libraries, or Minibiebs, as they are dubbed in Dutch, are a fascinating and often under-appreciated piece of urban technology. While some of them are built by schools, cultural institutions or even train station architects, the vast majority of Minibiebs are installed and maintained by individual volunteers.

Ranging from repurposed plastic crates or old pieces of furniture to elaborate, purpose built constructions, most Minibiebs are placed on public land. Owing to relatively generous spatial regulations, which tend to allow homeowners and tenants in most Dutch municipalities to make use of the space in front of their house, as long as it does not interfere with foot traffic, the hurdles for placing your own Minibieb are quite low.

#minibieb #streetlibrary #freelittlelibrary #opencall #callforsubmissions #books #photography

Gonna go fill up the little free library at the old folks home down the street. Hope they like fantasy.
About half the books are from the 80s and half are a lot more recent.
We'll give it about a month for all these to disappear and then fill'er up again
#Books #bookstodon #libraries #fantasy #FreeLittleLibrary

A reusable grocery bag full of books. Titles you can see include Roma Eterna, Throne of Glass, Circe, and The Second Book of Lost Swords

ok, time for #ThreeGoodThings ...

1) definitely feeling that the days are getting longer - more energy and better mood. yay!

2) got some new beads, so will be playing around with them later.

3) there's a lot of new books in the #freeLittleLibrary

#3GoodThings

@wendypalmer @LJ @SJHoodlet I refuse to buy from the As. If I buy #books online it’s either from the Publisher, the author, Scribd, or Bookshop.org and if I am not, for whatever reason, keeping the book, I donate to the local #library or #FreeLittleLibrary (especially titles from the #BannedBooks list, which I have on regular buying rotation)

Opened the 2025 season with a distribution round for “Under the Sea” and “Alien Species” across Amsterdam and a quest for the most extravagant Minibieb 🚲🔎📰🌞🏘️

A full list of locations can be found on our website on the pages for “Under The Sea” (https://papertrail.world/under-the-sea/) and “Alien Species” (https://papertrail.world/alien-species/). 📋

#minibieb #minibiebsvannederland #selfpublishing #streetlibrary #freelittlelibrary #zine #risograph

@HamonWry
You should check out this Little Free Library in my neighborhood. It may interest you.
#Minneapolis #MNastodon #MPLS
#books #reading #BannedBooksAreTheBestBooks
#BannedBooks #FreeLittleLibrary #FreeLittleLibraries #LittleFreeLibrary ##LittleFreeLibraries

A poster on the side of a Little Free Library that reads: Let Freedom Read
This Little Free Library shares banned books.

The BIL delivered on the #freelittlelibrary!

Next is the painting and placement on the post.

#books 📚

…three little finds #Books #FreeLittleLibrary #zQzLibrary

Coming to our #freelittlelibrary next month. A new collection donated by the family of an elderly voracious reader who passed away.

General reminder: bring books back too, too often books are taken but not returned.

#Ottawa #littlefreelibrary #books #booktooter

Two stacks off books just under 20 books Peter James, Sandra Brown, Rick Mercer and others.

12 - 13 years ago we were in Savannah, GA for a few days. We kept hearing about this #book and I was going to read it 'one day'. Last month it was in our #littlefreelibrary and I finally read it. I always assumed it was a very dark book but on the contrary, it was a joyful read (other than the fact that someone was killed obviously). Loved all the characters in the book.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_in_the_Garden_of_Good_and_Evil

#booktooter #freelittlelibrary

Found 3 #books at the curb ('free' sign) on my #Ottbike for our #Ottawa little free library eventually. #library #freelittlelibrary #biketooter #booktooter

Three book covers of Nerve, Sense and sensibility and men are from mars, women are from Venus

An orange and blue little library with a glass door and a wooden spoon that functions as a handle.

The man is going for the #librarians vote.

>This veep likes books! Governor Tim Walz put a Little Free Library in the Minnesota capitol. https://lithub.com/this-veep-likes-books-governor-tim-walz-put-a-little-free-library-in-the-minnesota-capitol/

#FreeLittleLibrary #libraries #books #reading #literacy

@MostlyHarmless Thinking of building this as a #FreeLittleLibrary .

Hard to imagine - but a decision one day we may all face!

When you move, what do you do with all those #books?
https://buff.ly/3Wjq8Jy

#moving #hording #collections #reading #writing #usedbooks #printbooks #collecting #bookstore #freelittlelibrary #libraries #donate #recyle

Our Little Library is now restocked - stop by!

#FreeLittleLibrary

Photo of our Little Library stocked with books such as Carter Beats the Devil, The Shipping News, All the Light We Cannot See, Motherless Brooklyn, The Time Traveler's Wife, Born a Crime (Trevor Noah biography)...

Goedemorgen ☕

De tassen met stripboeken en snoepgroente en fruit liggen klaar voor de Minidag van de StripParkBieb!

Het regent nog, dus ik wacht even met het biebje herinrichten. Moet toch ook nog een paar voorleesverhaaltjes uitkiezen.

Als er niemand komt, gaan we verder klussen. De deurtjes klemmen en de kitrand moet nog afgewerkt. Misschien wil ik wel genrestickertjes aanbrengen. Minibieb, maxi onderhoud 😄

#DagVanDeMinibieb
#Minibieb #Parkbieb
#Stripdagen #Haarlem #FreeLittleLibrary

#FreeLittleLibrary

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