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Reminder that we maintain a map of all London's bookswaps... places where you can freely pick up a book, or drop some off for someone else. We're always adding to it, so do let us know if there's one near you that we missed -> londonist.com/london/maps/a-…
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We've just done a major update to the map of London bookswaps -- 25 new locations and lots of photos. Is there a free bookswap near you that we've missed? londonist.com/london/maps/a-…
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27 Sep 2025
Lol as if bookswaps don’t exist in their neck of the woods londonist.com/london/maps/a-…
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21 Sep 2025
We've added several new pins to our map of free London bookswaps. Are there any near you that we've missed? 📚 londonist.com/london/maps/a-…
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26 Jul 2025
Buy spare copies of bitcoin books and leave them in free / charity bookswaps
Why didn't I think of this before ?
🤣
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16 May 2025
Crosstown Classic, Beyoncé dance parties, bookswaps, and more: What to do in Chicago this weekend. l8r.it/U0nq
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They're back! TfL removed all its Tube bookswaps in March after they'd been deemed a fire risk. New cabinets mean the popular features will soon return to 15 stations londonist.com/london/transpo…
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12 Mar 2025
We're getting reports that London Fire Brigade has forced the immediate closure of bookswaps across the Tube network 😮 londonist.com/london/news/bo…
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13 Feb 2025
📚 The library is buzzing every morning with book swaps! Don’t forget—your child can swap their book any morning at 8:30am. Happy reading! 📖✨ #LoveForReading #LibraryTime #BookSwaps
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You can't do white rural village "phone box bookswaps" in big city multikulti shitholes, sorry.
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20 Jan 2025
Regular reminder that we maintain a map of all London's free bookswaps (or all the ones we know about). Find out where your nearest bookswap is... or let us know if we've missed one londonist.com/london/maps/a-…
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26 Dec 2024
Finished one of my bookswaps @EmmaLyall3 😃The Passenger was such a great read, it gripped me from start to finish! Excellent choice 🙂@ChristmasBkSwap
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10 Dec 2024
We now have 230 bookswaps marked on our map (got any to add?). And we've just heard that artist Michal Szyszkodar is in town, slipping linocut prints of Frankenstein's Monster into some of the more prominent ones. See if you can find one... londonist.com/london/maps/a-…
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4 Sep 2024
The volunteer-led bookswaps/internet cafes/community spaces in Sheffield and many other places maybe “thriving” but not as Public Libraries as there is no provision for this in the 1964 Act 🤔
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22 May 2024
Public Library buildings run by volunteers without Library Workers and/or a statutory remit are ‘bookswaps’ and/or ‘community spaces’ and/or ‘internet cafes’ they are NOT Public Libraries or Community Libraries. This is a crucial distinction.
#libraries
#volunteerism
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10 Apr 2024
Today I took 2 books from a little free ''''library''''' for my toddler and I felt like I was betraying @wylie_alan by doing so 🤣 There is nothing wrong with bookswaps though, just don't call it a free library when a real one exists right down road!
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5 Apr 2024
Whether you like it or not Public Libraries without paid & trained Library Workers and/or a statutory remit are NOT Public Libraries.
Call them bookswaps, call them internet cafes, call them community hubs but DON’T call them Public Libraries.
#savelibraries
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5 Apr 2024
Library services as defined by the 1964 Act and not the ‘Community Living Rooms’ as proposed by the council or the volunteer-led bookswaps as proposed by @savebirmingham .
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One of the biggest book swaps I’ve ever seen! Some new stories have been added 👀
#bookswaps
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