*Tears of joy and pain*
If they done that in the UK I guarantee it would not last the weekend without someone pissing in it
It’s not like you could keep glass in phone boxes let alone books
That was my first thought about the US too1
We do have these in the US, though! They’re called little free libraries and they’ve been surprisingly successful! They’re especially great for neighborhoods whose poverty or distance to libraries is too great for people to have ready access to books otherwise.