Only two public bookcases identified today. I think the project could be wrapped up in around 10 more hours.

This project was featured on OpenStreetMap’s Instagram and Facebook pages - very flattering and validating considering I started editing OSM several months ago!

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It is now cold out and also dark, which bodes poorly for finishing this project in a timely manner, because biking when it’s cold and dark isn’t fun. I was not able to achieve my goal of finishing this project by first snowfall (we got 1.8 in [4.6 cm] on Oct 31), but I’m not taking this to heart because a lot of my time the past several weeks has been spent with higher priority things.

Today I was able to finish two streets in about 30 minutes, which is great! These were some of the longer streets in Greater Longfellow, so the pace will be quicker from here on out, most likely due to there being less clutter obstructing my view.

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All* of Seward is surveyed! I found very few public bookcases (PBs) when surveying the remaining streets, which wasn’t surprising because most people put their PB in their front yard, and in Minneapolis, most front yards are on the avenues (north-south roads).

*It’s possible there are PBs in the entryways or at the base of large apartment complexes, and I didn’t attempt to circumnavigate each large apartment as that would have involved leaving the street.

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I surveyed most of Seward’s avenues today, but what I’m most excited about is having finished surveying the three streets I was least excited about (9th St S, Franklin Ave E, and Minnehaha Ave S), leaving calmer streets for the rest of the project.

Unsurprisingly, I found few public bookcases (PBs) today. I believe this is due to the non-single family home nature of the roads surveyed, and in the roads lined with single family homes, the economic conditions of the inhabitants.

Shoutout to the Feminist Book Club for being the only non-residential entity (witnessed so far) to host a PB.

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I really thought I was going to be able to survey all of the Seward neighborhood today, but it got dark more quickly than expected. That really hampers my ability to see public bookcases, as you’d expect. Good to know for future surveys. It’s a solid start.

The weather has become substantially chillier than September and that’s really impacting my motivation. I wanted to wrap up this project before the first snow, but I’m wondering if my expectations were too high. Time will tell.

I really appreciate the kind words folks have left on my previous diary entry. I didn’t expect to get any acknowledgement, which is fine, but people left comments yesterday, over a week after I posted it. What a nice community OSM has!

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I enjoy reading people’s diary entries, so I’m starting my own. My current project is mapping public bookcases (PBs) in neighborhoods near me.

I started this project because I chance upon PBs when going for walks and can never remember where a PB is when I need one. There’s a map of Little Free Libraries (LFLs), but adding PBs to this map is “pay to play” which I don’t like, in addition to not displaying unaffiliated PBs. Other secondary goals include:

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