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2. Little Free Library - Wikipedia

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   Little Free Library in a Tokyo Metro station. The first Little Free Library was built in 2009 by the late Todd Bol in Hudson, Wisconsin. [9] Bol mounted a wooden container, designed to look like a one-room schoolhouse, on a post on his lawn and filled it with books as a tribute to his late mother, a book lover and school teacher who had recently died. [10]

3. Book rental service - Wikipedia

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   Generally worldwide public libraries are non-profit organizations offering book lending services free to their patrons and are generally funded through taxes and donations or by the state., [2] [3] Public libraries are accessible to general public and are run by civil servants, state employees, or volunteers.

4. Open Library - Wikipedia

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   Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, [3] [4] Brewster Kahle, [5] Alexis Rossi, [6] Anand Chitipothu, [6] and Rebecca Hargrave Malamud, [6] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization.

5. Borrow Kindle Books for Free With New Lending Club - AOL

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   If you own a Kindle and are looking to gain some literary karma and free books, the Kindle Lending Club is the place to start. The new site, which launched in public beta on Friday, allows a ...

6. Lending library - Wikipedia

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   A lending library is a library from which books and other media are lent out. [1] The major classifications are endowed libraries, institutional libraries (the most diverse), public libraries, and subscription libraries. It may also refer to a library or other institution that sends materials on request to another library, usually via ...

7. Public library - Wikipedia

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   [56] [57] The library in Campfield, Manchester was the first library to operate a "free" lending library without subscription in 1852. [58] Norwich lays claim to being the first municipality to adopt the Public Libraries Act 1850 (which allowed any municipal borough with a population of 100,000 or more to introduce a halfpenny rate to establish ...