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Join NOW!With 10,000 lakes, it was bound to happen: The Floating Library, an eight foot square stocked with 80 books. Most of the volumes are handmade art books, the Star Tribune reports. Artist Sarah Peters created the library and serves as its librarian on weekends through the end of August.
...moreStar Tribune Books Editor Laurie Hertzel began noticing the Little Free Libraries around her Twin Cities neighborhood. Little Free Libraries are compact, self-service stations where readers can share books (earlier this summer, a 9-year-old in Kansas operated a similar Little Free Library until his Kansas town forced him to remove it). Hertzel, meanwhile, began photographing […]
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