Against Little Free Libraries

Oh, for the love of FSM. This has to be the biggest load of bullocks I've heard recently. Of course LFL's are free - to the end user. And that's what matters. If I choose to donate surplus books from my personal collection to the nearby LFL and somebody comes and takes it, that's absolutely a free transaction for them. And, no, "real" libraries are most certainly not free. They're generally tax funded, which is the opposite of free in that you pay for it even if you don't use it!

OK, yeah, the $40 fee to "license" the LFL brand rubs up against some of my ideological biases a bit, but here's the rub... nothing mandates that you call your "yard front library" a "Little Free Library (tm)". You can set one up and call it whatever you want, if you're willing to forego being listed on their website. Big whooping deal. There are plenty of ways to publicize the presence of your own library.