The Washington Post's analysis of COVID-19 reading trends

Posted on 09/03/2020 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

If ever there were a definitive answer to the question “what have we been reading since the pandemic started?”, the...

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Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Reading

Want to keep your books in perfect shape? Here's how

Posted on 08/26/2020 at 12:55 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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No doubt about it — many bookworms treasure their physical reading material and shudder at how others mistreat it. That...

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Tagged As: Just for fun, Reading

Kuwait loosens its strict book censorship laws

Posted on 08/25/2020 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Kuwait’s extremely strict censorship laws have been adjusted — slightly. Previously, a Ministry of Information committee approved (or, more often,...

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Tagged As: Reading, The Guardian

See Libby's top ten most checked out ebooks and audiobooks

Posted on 08/12/2020 at 09:53 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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We know many Fussy followers are happy users of Libby, the reading app from OverDrive that many library systems use...

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Tagged As: Audiobook, Libraries, Reading

Publishing insiders predict this fall's reading trends

Posted on 08/01/2020 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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We’ve already taken a look at what captured readers’ attention during the first few months of the COVID pandemic and...

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Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Publishing, Reading

NY bookstores are adding reading material to children's lunchboxes

Posted on 07/30/2020 at 04:21 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit all of us in some way, and has been particularly brutal on certain segments of...

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Tagged As: Bookstore, coronavirus / COVID-19, Reading

1 famous author isn't enjoying much of the June book-sale surge

Posted on 07/17/2020 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A rising tide lifts all boats, right? Well, not in the literary world right now. NPD BookScan reported a 31.4...

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Tagged As: Reading, Scandal, Young adult literature

Wishbone the literary dog will get his own live-action movie

Posted on 07/16/2020 at 02:23 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It’s evidently news-from-the-1990s day on Fussy’s reader blog. We learned earlier that the Magic School Bus series author, Joanna Cole,...

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Tagged As: Movie adaptation, Pop culture, Reading

A tale of two readerships during the coronavirus lockdown

Posted on 05/16/2020 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Two complementary stories on reading trends crossed our newswire this week. On one hand, as we happily shared with a...

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Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Reading, The Guardian

Are we truly reading more? And what are we reading, if so?

Posted on 05/08/2020 at 12:17 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We know which toys and which recipes are becoming lifesavers during the shelter-in-place period (try finding yeast or puzzles nowadays)....

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Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Reading