Posted on August 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!
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The Boston Public Library is teaming up with OpenAI and Harvard Law School to make its collection of historically significant government documents — dating back to the early 1800s – more accessible to the public (NPR).
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State officials in Florida are pressuring school districts to bypass their established review processes for books and to instead immediately remove fifty-five books from their shelves; multiple districts have publicly caved to these demands (Book Riot).
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All Things Considered talked with the new CEO of the nonprofit organization Little Free Library about what the rise in digital reading could mean for these grassroots libraries (NPR).
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A letter that Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote to a friend, at age twenty-two, details how the future celebrated poet was considering giving up on writing; the items is up for sale through a London rare books and manuscripts dealer (The Guardian).
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Alicia Silverstone will return as Cher Horowitz in a new TV version of Clueless, the 1995 film that borrows inspiration from Jane Austen's Emma (TODAY).
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