Little Free Library
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
I touched base with Little Free Library CEO Daniel Gumnit about how to promote literacy, why stories are best when shared, and exactly how to bring a Little Free Library to your “neck of the woods.” Learn more here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
| 0:24.0 | look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't |
| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
| 0:36.2 | For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens. |
| 0:44.8 | This was a little bit of a different type of episode, but I've decided to spotlight some people in the literary world who are not specifically authors, |
| 0:53.1 | and I thought that the CEO of Little Free |
| 0:55.8 | Library would be really interesting to talk to. I mean, he was really interesting to talk to. |
| 1:00.2 | His name is Daniel Gumnit. He's the executive director and chief executive officer at the |
| 1:04.8 | Little Free Library nonprofit. His mission is to be a catalyst for building community, inspiring readers, and expanding |
| 1:12.6 | book access for all. If you haven't seen one of the little mini bookshelves out in the wild, |
| 1:19.1 | there are over 200,000 of them. Maybe you've contributed a book, maybe you've taken a book. They're in |
| 1:24.6 | all 50 states in 128 countries and seven continents. |
| 1:29.4 | So how did this happen? And what's it like to run something like this? And how can we all help expand book access and make sure everyone's reading? |
| 1:37.6 | That's what we talked about. Stay tuned. |
| 1:39.5 | Welcome, Daniel. So excited to talk to you about Little Free Library and all the great work that you and your organization do, does, do. I don't know, all the great work you do. |
| 1:50.6 | We all do, yes. Thanks, Simi. It's a real pleasure to meet you. I'm super excited to be here today. |
| 1:56.1 | Amazing. Daniel, Little Free Library, when did you join? Why did you join and tell us about the amazing work |
| 2:05.5 | you're doing? Well, so Little Free Library is a remarkable organization. Many people know us from |
| 2:12.7 | the book sharing boxes on corners all over the world. Right now, there's about 200,000 Little Free Libraries worldwide |
| 2:20.5 | in 128 countries and on seven continents, including Antarctica. We share about 83 million books a year. |
| 2:29.5 | That's a huge number. So I'm very new to Little Free Library, and I'm going to milk the new guy thing |
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