Toronto is the latest city to embrace Little Free Libraries, the international movement featured on MobyLives in February. Little Free Libraries do exactly what they say on the tin — they’re tiny lending libraries with no membership requirements or late fees. Anyone can start one and register it with the organization to make it official. Build a small free-standing structure, fill it with books, and you’re away. Borrowers are supposed to return the book borrowed — or another in its stead — when they’re finished, and though that often doesn’t happen there’s so much goodwill towards the initiative that there’s rarely a shortage of donated books.*

Torontoist reports that local 79-year-old Bill Wrigley was the first to start an LFL in the city, and that he now aims to install a total of twenty. He believes there are six or seven in his local area, though only two are registered.

* Which is one of many reasons that, heartwarming as they are, initiatives like this will never be an adequate replacement for public libraries.