I hadn't seen this earlier and, given the food insecurities of our new covid lives, I think this is a marvelous idea.
But, like the little libraries that came before them, I wonder about their locations. I've only seen them in fairly prosperous neighborhoods, which makes sense: it's something people with leisure and money tend to create and maintain. And for a good cause: reading is great and also important. But I feel as though the readily available audience, because of the way neighborhoods population sort, tend to be people who already read, already have access to books. The neighborhoods where people desperately need these because they can't get to or don't know about muni libraries...are not where I've ever seen the little libraries.
Maybe this is just the case in the city where I live, but the inequality of this is something that nags at me, makes me wish this energy could go to those deeply in need rather than to those for whom it's a clever amusement.
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But, like the little libraries that came before them, I wonder about their locations. I've only seen them in fairly prosperous neighborhoods, which makes sense: it's something people with leisure and money tend to create and maintain. And for a good cause: reading is great and also important. But I feel as though the readily available audience, because of the way neighborhoods population sort, tend to be people who already read, already have access to books. The neighborhoods where people desperately need these because they can't get to or don't know about muni libraries...are not where I've ever seen the little libraries.
Maybe this is just the case in the city where I live, but the inequality of this is something that nags at me, makes me wish this energy could go to those deeply in need rather than to those for whom it's a clever amusement.