Would not work, they would wreck them here in Berlin and many other cities.

They’d get pee’d on in the U.K.

Oh no... not in Chicago.

Sounds wonderful, but you & I know how our people in the U.S. would treat them. Instant trash.

You'd get people complaining that the space should have been used for more seats.

Had smth close some time ago in the subway here. Books left on chairs but attached with strings to the hand bars, to encourage people to read. You could browse them, read a little and if you got interested, you would seek the book to buy it from somewhere. I wish they would do it again, maybe even permanently. I myself have many books and little space to spare, so when I read them I give them away. I was thinking of even leaving them on the trains for whoever wants them next...🤔

No. Only educated and cultured countries could have them.Animals in the rest of them would either destroy or steal them.

For what? Some shitty kid to draw boobs on their pages?

Agreed. Very jealous of them.

Not in most big in the U. S.. That bookcase won’t last a day.

Every book would be stolen here in Boston.

Not in New York , u won't see a book there ever..

is that a map of the route on the floor?

USA books would be gone

Those books would be stolen in a day in America. Or just thrown on the ground and ruined

People in America would steal them. Some ppl anyway..

The books would be stolen or destroyed... For the most part, we do not have the same respect for this type of thing in this country.....

In the US they would all be stolen in a few days.

Peeps are no good, and would just steal the books.

Yes.

Mhm

Can you imagine this on a train in Japan.... In rush hour??

Agreed

Here in the US, too!

Not on BART...

No need. Americans don't read any more. They don't read to their children either. Pediatricians even have to recommend limiting screen time.

And who tf says I'm not reading on my phone?

I would bring my own book. Any books on the shelf where I live would have more germs than the paper money.

Good idea. And leave your cell phone behind too...

I've never seen this in Seoul and every subway I have taken is packed like sardine cans every rush hour

Maybe it's a special library car?

Exactly

We have those in Austin, TX where I live, but I only see a few here and there. And no one seems to do anything but comment how cute the little free libraries are. The only one I ever used was in a cabinet at work, when I was in Newborn Screening with the DSHS. It was full of books and a few DVDs. When management changed, our newly promoted manager got rid of it. She knew I liked the little library, and she hated me. Pretty shitty thing to do, particularly considering she used to be a schoolteacher…. I’m still with the DSHS, but in another section. We bring our own books, if we want to read.

I have one in my neighborhood in Simpsonville SC, I’ve seen them everywhere including on a snowy street in Junaeu Alaska back last Christmas…. Good stuff

...wtf?...