- Taylor Hare shares some of the ways the blind could access books before the advent of Braille in Scotland. (National Library of Scotland)
- Molly Templeton looks for “recipes” for comfort reading. (Reactor)
- James Folta briefly notes how commas (and other punctuation) led to a revolution in Russia. (LitHub)
- Tegan O’Neil has thoughts about the return of the legendary Vertigo. (The Comics Journal)
- Dónal Gill wonders if Jonathan Swift is the antidote to the belief that technology is the solution for everything. (The Dial)
- Karin Murray-Bergquist shares the amazing Book of Hy-Brasil, a medieval book that has traveled a lot more than I have in its life. (Medievalists.net)
- Sarah Johnson discusses historical fiction as a genre. (Reading the Past)
- And Matthew Byrd defines LitRPG. (Reactor)
- Katie McLain Horner rounds up bookstore and library pets. (Book Riot)
- I am jealous of the students who get to spend their summer repairing papyrus fragments at the University of Michigan. (Michigan News)
- Barrie Hardymon and Samantha Balaban visit Ann M. Martin, the author of the Babysitters Club books. (NPR)
- Susan Farrell digs into Kurt Vonnegut’s inspiration for Slaughterhouse-five. (LitHub)
- Lois Beckett reports that you can check out fossils and taxidermied critters from the the San Diego Natural History Museum’s collection. (The Guardian)
- Anthony Ha has the most recent complications in the Anthropic settlement. (TechCrunch)
- Andrew Curry explains how researchers extracted DNA from a medieval manuscript and found a virus. (Science)
- Edwin L. Battistella still looks up words and phrases as he reads. (OUP Blog)
- …and some censorship news from Kelly Jensen: September 4 and September 11
