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Leave the Internet Archive alone!
Except for book publishers, the Internet Archive has done no one any harm. But that hasn't stopped hackers from beating up on the site over and over again.
theconversation.com/most-us-bo…
Most US book bans target children’s literature featuring diverse characters and authors of color
The number of book bans in the US has soared in recent years. A new study shines light on which types of books and authors are the main targets.The Conversation
Can you please boost this question so I can reach a wider audience?
Does anyone out there have a paperback copy of "The Second O of Sorrow" by Sean Thomas Dougherty?
I need to know the number of the page that the poem "Why Bother?" is on.
Thanks in advance!
When bureaucracy’s inefficiency can be helpful.
"In 1988, India ruled Salman Rushdie’s “Satanic Verses” could not be imported. This week, the ban was lifted because officials could not find the original order." Gift Link nytimes.com/2024/11/08/world/a…
#books #handmaidstale
Eritrean journalist Akberet Beyene was placed under house arrest in her home country as part of a crackdown on the media, and eventually fled the country dressed in her mother’s clothes and carrying her sister’s passport. It was just the first step in her journey to Canada as an asylum seeker. She tells her story in a new book, Geographies of the Heart,
which is excerpted in @thetyee.
thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/10/31/…
#RefugeesWelcome #Books @bookstodon #Culture #Canada #Journalism #Media #Eritrea #AsylumSeeker #Immigration #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
#OTD in 1797.
Jane Austen's father writes to London bookseller Thomas Cadell to ask if he is interested in seeing the manuscript of Jane's recently completed novel First Impressions (later re-titled Pride and Prejudice); Cadell declines.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
#OTD in 1726.
The novel Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre is published. Swift claimed that he wrote it "to vex the world rather than divert it".
Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
the last independent bookstore in Flint, Michigan is at risk of closing
help if you can!
gofundme.com/f/save-comma-book…
shared from #LittleMissFlint
might be good to have for young people in your life
Queer Liberation Library
Queer Liberation Library (QLL) is fighting to build a vibrant, flourishing queer future by connecting LGBTQ+ people with literature, information, and resources that celebrate the unique and empowering diversity of our community.Queer Liberation Library
“It’s time to turn off this car accident of a tech future, and get on with reclaiming the world from this new generation of robber barons. These are not the demigods we’re looking for.” @Rushkoff brilliant article.
theguardian.com/books/2023/nov…
#books
#socialmedia #technology
‘We will coup whoever we want!’: the unbearable hubris of Musk and the billionaire tech bros
Challenging each other to cage fights, building apocalypse bunkers – the behaviour of today’s mega-moguls is becoming increasingly outlandish and imperialDouglas Rushkoff (The Guardian)