You may have spotted a little free library in your neighborhood — there are more than 200,000 worldwide. But how is their role changing when people increasingly read online?

In Portland, Ore., people have gone beyond the trend of Little Free Libraries, creating all kinds of sidewalk installations to spark joy.

Six “Little Library Boxes” filled with free books will be installed in the Scotlandville neighborhood. More boxes will be added throughout North Baton Rouge in the future.

The Little Free Library in Springfield is one of two the fiber broadband provider Brightspeed is sponsoring in Missouri.

Take a book, leave a book. The Little Free Library has made its way into the heart of Coral Springs, taking on a different approach to the traditional book archive. Within miniature wooden boxes ...

Brookline for Racial Justice and Equity hopes the stories will inspire empathy and reconnect people with the joy of reading.

Once in a while, humanity has a really great idea like the polio vaccine, hors d’oeuvres or the internet. In that pantheon, I also place the Little Free Library movement. The dollhouse-size ...

Bring your neighborhood together and refresh your bookshelf. Setting up a Little Free Library can be done in a weekend.

Little Free Library is an organization that builds community, inspires readers and expands book access for all through a global network of volunteer-led Little Free Library book-sharing boxes.

Later this month, Dog Man-themed book-sharing boxes will be installed in all 50 states and stocked with 50,000 children’s books donated by Dav Pilkey.

The Little Free Library foundation provides an app with registered boxes shown on a map that I could use to maximize my book-plucking potential, but I delight in the serendipity.

• There are 1,600 Little Free Libraries — those book-filled boxes that allow you to grab or donate something to read — in L.A. County. • We rounded up 8 pleasant L.A. walks that will bring ...