Our new outdoor library
By Gil ggg
@gilggg (2538)
Israel
June 16, 2017 7:36am CST
This is in my neighborhood a quite little corner where you can read books and stories or study outdoor.
This is a nice quiet corner that the neighborhood people built on a volunteer basis with benches and a roof that gives shade and protects the people who sit and read it.
There is also a small broad near where children sometimes play...
All the books out there are donated by people and sometimes people add, lend or return books so there are a great variety of topics to read.
Do you have a outdoor library in your place?
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@youless (112562)
• Guangzhou, China
21 Jun 17
I like that and this is so nice to encourage people to read more. I just wonder whether the books will get wet if it rains heavily. A few weeks ago I saw a modern book booth nearby my home. At first I thought it was a mini library but later I found that it is a boostore which sells book automatically. I just wonder who will buy a book in that way since you can take it to browse it at first. You can only see its cover and not much information about the books.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
17 Jun 17
a quiet corner to read while children play nearby sounds wonderful. i hope the books don't get wet when it rains.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
17 Jun 17
@gilggg i do see it. i guess i was thinking about our tropical storms here.
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@gilggg (2538)
• Israel
17 Jun 17
@hereandthere In this case, you need to design more sophisticated cover to protect tropical storms...
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@ilocosboy (45156)
• Philippines
19 Jun 17
This is so awesome, I mean that outdoor library is really amazing done by your neighbor and your community. It is so interesting that this library is offered to the people in your place.
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@ilocosboy (45156)
• Philippines
20 Jun 17
@gilggg i can imagine what a great activity happened their.
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@jaiho2009 (39141)
• Philippines
24 Jun 17
So nice, I wish we also have one here in my place.
I like reading book and we have collection of books at home.
My daughter always buy during booksales , sometimes we do book swapping.
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@jaiho2009 (39141)
• Philippines
24 Jun 17
@gilggg That would be so relaxing, reading book with soft guitar in the background 
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@gilggg (2538)
• Israel
24 Jun 17
@jaiho2009 Yes, it's one of my favorite activity with my family..
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@stringer321 (5644)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
17 Oct 17
That's awesome, I sometimes need some peace and quiet from my dad and from my sister so I go to a library to study. The problem is that the library is not opened for the whole day, just a few hours in morning and at the noon.
Well, I guess it's all right.
Did you read any book already from that open library ?
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@stringer321 (5644)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
19 Oct 17
@gilggg That is so lovely, I bet people sit and listen to you too (maybe pretending to be reading something else, but, maybe, they listen to you).
When my mom reads a story to my nephew, she reads it with intonations: Do you know the story with the five balloons (yellow, green, blue, purple, and red) ? When my mom reads is, she changes her voice to the characters. My nephew likes it very much :-)
There is also the story about the rabbit that doesn't likes to be seen by others, so the lion and the giraff decide to hide and wait for him to come out, then they get to know him, his name is ''mitz petel'' (hebrew for raspberry juice). My mom changes her voice to the lion's voice, the giraff's voice and all :-) this is so funny and dramatic.
Can you please tell about some specific stories that you read to your kids ?
@gilggg (2538)
• Israel
19 Oct 17
@stringer321 Yes, I read the stories you wrote for my grandchildren, and I also read them the stories about the "generous tree", "Aya Papaya", "Hanan the gardener" and more ...
@stringer321 (5644)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
17 Oct 17
@jstory07 If someone steals those books, he will need space for them, it will cost him with a lot of effort, that's a lot of weight to carry. Maybe a hidden camera can help here.
@Tina30219 (82056)
• Onaway, Michigan
27 Jul 17
We don't have one like this but we have a box where people can go and take a book read it and bring it back once done with them. And you can also leave books there. But since I read by kindle it is of no use to me
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@lillywriter (1143)
• Lithuania
19 Jun 17
No, we have not such outdoor library here, and not always weather would fit to keep books outdoor.
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@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
29 Jun 17
This is lovely and I hope if it rains the books will be put away.
Yes there are small libraries in our place that are outdoors along streets too but not as big as that one.
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
5 Jul 17
Not where I live, but I have packed up some books I've read to take to the campground. The camp has a free library and my books go there for other campers to read.
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