A Frivolous Folly

verifascinating:

Angelina Ballerina (another favorite childhood book series) gave me unrealistic expectations about friendship - and ballet.

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thedailywhat:

Stamp Set of the Day: New from the UK’s Royal Mail — “a special set of stamps featuring some of the world’s most famous wizards, witches and enchanters.”

[guardian / o|w.]

smallrooms:

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athousandwinds:

  There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. — Mary Ellen Chase.

  Rose and Bertha Gugger by Albert Anker, Swiss, 1831-1910, oil on canvas in private collection. Christie’s Images Ltd. Scanned by A Thousand Winds.

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unconsumption:

Happy National Library Week — the annual celebration, led by the American Library Association, of all things library! This week, in honor of Library Week, we’ll feature a series of library- and book-related posts.

Today, the Unconsumption spotlight is on Little Free Libraries: community book exchanges — located in places like your neighbor’s front yard, and on college campuses and in hospitals — where library cards aren’t needed. The libraries’ basic concept is: “Take a book. Leave a book.”

Most of the “libraries,” which hold 20-30 donated books, are made from reclaimed materials. Each library, which has an official caretaker who builds and maintains it, is registered by the Little Free Library (LFL) project, with its location noted on the LFL Web site. So far, more than 200 little libraries have opened in 34 states and 17 countries.

The libraries not only provide a way for people to pass along books they no longer want, they also help foster a sense of community. In this NPR story on the Little Free Library project, a library user says: “there are all of these nice, little serendipitous connections that happen with your neighbors.” A library caretaker mentioned meeting, via her free library, neighbors who live a block away — neighbors she hadn’t met previously. 

Through the non-profit project, LFL co-founders Todd Bol and Rick Brooks aim to promote literacy and love of reading; they also hope that more people (you, perhaps?) will contact them about opening free little libraries in their own communities!

See also:

• Earlier Unconsumption posts on various community-driven book swaps, including several operating out of old phone booths, plus other swapping-related projects and services here. 
• More on sharing and the sharing economy / collaborative consumption, libraries, and books.

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bookshelfporn:

Hérodote Lyon, Bouquiniste Lyon, France

Photo by Paolo Emilio

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smallrooms:

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swashbuckling:

willanoid:

reminds me of the Pagemaster

the little musketeer book, omg