Do-it-yourself libraries
When the editors at Reader’s Digest made a list of the «50 Surprising Reasons We Love America» for their July 2013 cover story, they placed Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi at No. 50, Bill Gates at No. 25, and at No. 11, sandwiched between sliced bread and tumbleweeds, was Little Free Library, a homespun-tribute-turned-international-phenomenon started by Rotary member Todd Bol.
People in 55 countries have installed more than 16,000 Lilliputian lending libraries, run on the premise of «take a book, return a book,» since Bol built his first in 2009 in memory of his mother, a teacher who loved…
