Paul) and 55113 (Roseville and bits of nearby communities) are next on this list. Minneapolis ZIP codes 5549 are second and third in metro-area Little Free Library density, after 55104. (Scott Takushi / Pioneer Press)īol died that year.
He built the first library, right foreground, in September 2009 and the movement has grown to a worldwide presence. Todd Bol, seen in Hudson, Wis., on March 11, 2015, founded the nonprofit Little Free Library, a free book-exchange movement, in 2009. The number of boxes mushroomed from several dozen in 2012 to about 22,000 in 2014 and about 75,000 by 2018. Wisconsinite Todd Bol sparked the Little Free Library movement in 2009 with a box he put outside his Hudson home as a tribute to his mom. That’s up from 2011, when there were two known boxes in St. Even wandering at random, I will invariably stumble on a half-dozen or more boxes on a 90-minute power walk. The Little Free Library foundation provides an app with registered boxes shown on a map that I could use to maximize my book-plucking potential, but I delight in the serendipity. I never have a route, unless I am running an errand. Every morning, I set out on a three- to four-mile hike with my Apple Watch strapped to my wrist for activity monitoring, and my messenger bag slung over my shoulder for book harvesting. Hey, reading is supposed to be relaxing! So I went cold turkey (at least for the time being) with the digital reading.
This is great, but I became stressed when I got swamped with book-due notices. Paul Public Library to use on my iPad or Kindle. I favor public-library variants, available for checkout from the St. Second, I became disenchanted with e-books.
So I switched to walking, often with my wife, who doesn’t know how to ride a bicycle. I concluded that I am too absentminded to safely cycle from place to place - I have had so many close calls! - and realized that I would kill myself sooner or later. Then, recently, two things happened.įirst, I fell off my bicycle last summer and suffered a concussion that put me off biking forever. It’s too bad I squandered this reading opportunity for a decade. Paul, home to the nonprofit group that is celebrating its 11th birthday on the first-ever Little Free Library Week, boasts more book nooks than found in any of 25 U.S. As it happens, my 55104 ZIP code has the greatest density of such book-exchange kiosks in Minnesota. I’ve long admired those wooden Little Free Library box-on-pole stations set up outside thousands of Minnesota homes to traffic in the drug to beat all drugs - books.
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