In this Sept. 23, 2016 photo, Kyle Thompson and his children, Ainsley and Jack, fill up a Little Free Library with books in Charleston, Ill. With an interest in sharing books with the community, Kyle and Chantel Thompson set up Charleston’s first official Little Free Library. Little Free Libraries are installations, normally birdhouse or mailbox looking setups, that follow a simple concept: “take a book, return a book.” Among the 40,000 libraries installed in this and other countries, people can either take a book from the box or leave a book following an honor system. (Jarad Jarmon/Times-Courier via AP)
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