Posted on February 19, 2026 at 3:00 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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New York City's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has released his preliminary budget for the next fiscal year, and it includes a 0.39 percent funding increase for libraries — not the 0.5 percent increase he had backed on the campaign trail (Literary Hub).
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Rebecca Joines Schinsky reports that Goodreads is adding a DNF shelf feature starting March 1 and that Audible has launched an audio-and-text synchronization feature called Read & Listen (Book Riot).
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Here are the honorees and finalists for the L.A. Times's 46th annual Book Prizes (Book Riot).
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Check out the design process for the just revealed cover of Introvert Pervert by Jendi Reiter (Electric Literature).
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