- Joanne Sweeny and Terri Leclerq explain why prison officials keep banning books for prisoners. (Salon)
- Kaoru Akagawa is working on resurrecting kana, the writing system used by Japanese women for centuries. (The Guardian)
- Tiffani Willis talks about not cleaning out her to-read pile, making me wonder if its harder to weed a to-read pile than an actual pile of books. (Book Riot)
- Alison Flood shares the history of plagiarisms of Charles Dickens, which sound so hilariously nutty that I kind of want to read them. (The Guardian)
- Julia Carpenter reports on yet another reason why romance writers have it rough: online harassment. (Glamour)
- You guys! Multispectral imaging to read palimpsests! (Gizmodo)
