- Sophia Stewart takes us to the National Braille Press. (The Millions)
- Ayun Halliday serves up some bookish satisfaction with a short video about Japanese papermaking. I don’t know about y’all but I find papermaking weirdly enjoyable. (OpenCulture)
- Molly Templeton wonders if we have too darn many genres these days. (Tor)
- Lawrence Sutin turns old books into art and poetry. (LitHub)
- Erica Bruenlin reports on The Bookies Bookstore, which makes it easy for us to help out classrooms in need of books. (Colorado Sun)
- Lucy Knight discusses efforts by more than 8,000 authors to keep AI from harvesting their words without permission. (The Guardian)
- Jesse Fraga talks to LGBTQ+ activists building mini-libraries in Florida. (Miami New Times)
- Keggie Carew has thoughts about how we talk about animals. Pronouns are powerful! (LitHub)
- Tabitha C. Hilliard presents book banning as a civil rights issue. (EveryLibrary)
- Jess Row meditates on popularity and its effects on author success. (Row, i.e. argument)
- Janet Manley would like us all to let kids read weird books and I heartily agree! (LitHub)
- Time for some censorship news, brought to you by Book Riot!
