The Artful Imperfection of Medieval Manuscript Repair ( www.atlasobscura.com )
e-book from Evie Snow, free today ( sunny.garden )
Writer George Penney (who also writes wonderful posts about house-sitting adventures with feline overlords in various countries and is an entertaining follow) just posted this on Mastodon:...
The Essential Ursula K. Le Guin ( www.nytimes.com )
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New app helps US teens read banned books ( www.theguardian.com )
“The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is trying to fight back. It recently launched the Banned Book Program, granting free nationwide access to books restricted in schools or libraries....
Utopia or dystopia? In these books, it’s complicated. ( wapo.st )
These new science fiction and fantasy novels from S.L. Huang, Temi Oh, Kiersten White and others challenge our understanding of what the good life entails...
‘Times change’: what authors think about rewriting older books ( www.theguardian.com )
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Jacqueline Wilson says rewriting children’s books can be justified ( www.theguardian.com )
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The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco. ( www.nytimes.com )
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Hey, I host a lemmy instance focused on books and reading (and all the communities that fall under that umbrella) ( literature.cafe )
cross-posted from: literature.cafe/post/349464...
Opinion | Long covid has derailed my life. Make no mistake: It could yours, too. ( wapo.st )
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[ITA] Canale Telegram per riassunti di letteratura e panieri compilati eCampus ( t.me )
I Would Rather See My Books Get Pirated Than This (Or: Why Goodreads and Amazon Are Becoming Dumpster Fires) | Jane Friedman ( janefriedman.com )
tl;dr Books, most likely generated by an LLM, were being sold on Amazon under Jane Friedman’s name. The same books were added to her Goodreads profile. Amazon initially refused to remove the books. If it’s happening to her, it’s definitely happening to other authors.
Report finds YouTube more popular than TikTok for young book buyers ( www.theguardian.com )
‘I wanted to be No 1. But a certain JK Rowling came along’: Jacqueline Wilson on rivalry, censorship – and love ( www.theguardian.com )
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‘What we publish will stay with you’: inside a small but mighty literary hit factory ( www.theguardian.com )
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‘I can’t stress how much BookTok sells’: teen literary influencers swaying publishers ( www.theguardian.com )
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Read Your Way Through Hanoi ( www.nytimes.com )
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A poet’s ground-level account of the collapse of Uyghur society ( wapo.st )
In ‘Waiting to be Arrested at Night,’ Tahir Hamut Izgil mourns a world of loved ones and letters lost...
The Booker Prize 2023 longlist ( thebookerprizes.com )
The longlist has been announced! It features work from four continents, four Irish writers, four debut novelists – and ten authors who are recognised by the Booker Prize for the first time...
Peter Pan and the Copyright that Never Grew Up - Plagiarism Today ( www.plagiarismtoday.com )
When most people discuss perpetual copyrights, they’re usually its at least somewhat hyperbolic....
The Booker Prize Foundation is partnering with Prisons in the UK to support reading groups ( lithub.com )
Working with the Booker Prize Foundation, Dua Lipa recently visited HMP Downview, a women’s prison in Surrey, to get a firsthand glimpse of Books Unlocked, a program set up by the BPF and the National Literacy to foster a culture of reading for incarcerated people. Lipa, who recently launched a book club of her own, said of...
Nobody Ever Read American Literature Like This Guy Did ( www.nytimes.com )
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‘It’s exciting, it’s powerful’: how translated fiction captured a new generation of readers ( www.theguardian.com )
My reading spot for the weekend ( beehaw.org )
Booksellers sue over Texas law requiring them to rate books for appropriateness ( www.texastribune.org )
