[duxup]

My doctor's office has one. My kids love going there and seeing what might be there and adding books.

The idea that someone else put their book there and that they can really gets them excited.

[tzs]

On the one hand, that's cool. Anything that makes a place kids have to go that is often scary and unpleasant nicer is good.

On the other hand...kids aren't always the most hygienic when it comes to handling thing. Is there any concern that sick kids leaving books might spread their sickness? Or are the kind of communicable sicknesses that kids get that send them to the doctor (as opposed to, say, the emergency room) the kind that don't really spread through casual sharing of objects, so it doesn't matter?

[duxup]

I feel like kids are just contagious by default and your typical kid at a clinic has a cold just like the kid in school with a cold.

Despite some outliers, most folks aren't carrying terrible diseases so I don't sweat it.