News of note for readers: January 28, 2025

Posted on January 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Bookstore, E-reader, Libraries, Politics, Reading, Survey

Big-picture literary questions: October 2024

Posted on October 22, 2024 at 1:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Nate Hoffelder's weekly roundup of links recently included several food-for-thought posts that relate to the literary world. If you're among...

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Tagged As: Amazon, E-reader, Licenses, copyrights, and other legalese, Reading

On-the-ground book ban reporting

Posted on September 18, 2024 at 7:38 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It's Prison Banned Books Week, and our newsfeed reflects that. Book Riot shared a piece called "Uninspired Reading," written by...

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Tagged As: Bans and challenges, E-reader, Libraries, Technology

Book technology, past and present

Posted on August 20, 2024 at 9:02 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The posts about book technology look both backwards and forwards. The former: NPR revisited a conversation about physical media —...

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Tagged As: E-reader, Technology

News of note for readers: May 28, 2024

Posted on May 28, 2024 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...

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Tagged As: E-reader, Excerpt, Movie adaptation, Politics, TV adaptation

News of note for readers: May 6, 2024

Posted on May 6, 2024 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each...

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Tagged As: E-reader, Fantasy, Kobo, Middle-grade fiction, Obituary, Poetry

Deep dives: Bans, smartphones, and names

Posted on April 16, 2024 at 3:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Not all of these literary and linguistic posts are serious as in somber, but they are serious in the amount...

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Tagged As: Bans and challenges, E-reader, Language, Technology

News of note for readers: April 15, 2024

Posted on April 15, 2024 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each...

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Tagged As: Awards, Book lists, E-reader, Excerpt, Kobo, Poetry, Young adult literature

News of note for readers: April 2, 2024

Posted on April 2, 2024 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each...

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Tagged As: Bans and challenges, Barnes & Noble / Nook, E-reader, Libraries, Memorabilia, Nonfiction, Poetry

Book bans and challenges: March 22, 2024

Posted on March 22, 2024 at 3:29 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Here's the latest news on book bans and challenges — and other challenges to literature — around the US. The...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Artificial intelligence (AI), Bans and challenges, E-reader, Libraries, Licenses, copyrights, and other legalese