- Claire Woodcock explains how one parent’s displeasure led to all of the graphic novels being removed from one Oklahoma library. (Vice)
- E. Alex Jung writes in praise of Octavia Butler. (Vulture)
- Addison Rizer has tips for joining a book club on TikTok. (Book Riot)
- Charlie Sorrel points out some problems with ebooks and argues that print books are a safer option in the long run. (Lifewire)
- Lucy Knight reports on the first ever public vote for Oxford’s word of the year. (The Guardian)
- LitHub announced that they’re endorsing “goblin mode.”
- Elizabeth Winkler dives into the history of Enheduanna, the earliest known named writer. (The New Yorker)
- Denise Gigante explores mid-nineteenth-century New York’s bibliomania. (Lapham’s Quarterly)
- …and this week’s helping of censorship news, from Book Riot.
I really appreciate that article on the fragility of e-books. My current kindle is now obsolete- so when it dies and I have to replace, I’ll probably have to replace a lot of the book files that don’t have the right formatting for a new device. That’s very annoying. I still appreciate my kindle for travel purposes, but I no longer feel weird about getting paper-in-hand duplicates of my favorites to put on the actual bookshelf too.