Across the United States, efforts to ban books have skyrocketed. In 2022, this push reached an unprecedented level, with the number of challenged books nearly doubling since 2021. "The last two years ...

As book bans spike nationwide, access to particular texts varies tremendously depending on where readers are located. “If you’re after a particular title by Toni Morrison or Margaret Atwood,” writes ...

With so many books in the world, reading can be an endlessly expensive hobby. But thanks to the internet and the magic of libraries, there are a ton of ways to read your favorite books for free, from ...

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In response to nationwide book bans, one New York public library is lending ebooks to all teens in the US. Peter is a writer and editor for the CNET How-To team. He has been covering technology, ...

Getting your hands on a good book to read is as easy as clicking “borrow” on your tablet. If you’re a slow adopter to the world of e-books, you should know that you can download thousands of e-books ...

You can get library books on a Kindle device through Amazon's partnership with OverDrive, as long as you have a library membership with a participating institution ...

While real books still hold a special place in our hearts, there's no denying an Amazon Kindle is an exceptional piece of kit. Whether it's simply to save yourself some shelf space (or avoid buying a ...

So Action News went to Daniel Blank, the Managing Director of the Author Events series at the Free Library, for two things: ...