Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots

(bookcorners.org)

21 points | by NaOH 2 days ago

4 comments

  • konsalexee 18 minutes ago
    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
  • matijsvzuijlen 2 hours ago
    This is a nice idea but a lot of the OSM tiles show as blocked due to lack of a Referer.
  • rusk 2 hours ago
    I have lots of old books that aren’t very good. That I can’t give away. What do I do with them? I have this strange taboo feeling about destroying books, even bad ones!
    • riedel 38 minutes ago
      That is what those book corners are for. In Germany a lot of old public phone cells have been repurposed for that. Just don't overload them and also consider taking some books that interest you. Somehow it regulates and I guess someone also throws away stuff from time to time. I actually would not consider many of those listed in the OP 'libraries' because I rarely see books returning. There are more books exchanges. I liked the idea of bookcrossing.com that gives more value to the books (I never got any ping back though). There are also book resellers (some buy per weight, some let you estimate price by ISBN scanning before sending them)
    • tomodachi94 2 hours ago
      You could digitize them if you think you (or your family/friends/etc.) would read them: https://www.diybookscanner.org/

      (If any are public domain, consider scanning them and uploading to archive.org!)

      • rusk 2 hours ago
        That’s no good to me. It’s the physical volumes I need to get rid of. I couldn’t give a fiddlers about what’s in them
        • ninalanyon 31 minutes ago
          Donate them to free libraries or charity shops. Oxfam has bookshops and they often have old books.