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 ...

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 ...

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The way we access library books has drastically changed. You can access an enormous amount of borrowable content through an iPhone or iPad app — here's how. Public libraries have paired up with some ...

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There's a new (and easy) way to share banned books in your community. Here's what to know, according to someone who fights book bans across the country. It started as a random act of kindness: ...

The world can be a discouraging place. There's war and famine, corruption in politics, widespread ecological destruction, and those silly new earbuds with no cord. But there is one shining ray of hope ...

In my childhood home, we struggled, surviving on what other people didn’t want or need, writes. But my mom was the most ...

Comics have been bringing joy to people for over a century, but how we read them is always changing. Whether it was the change from buying comics at newsstands to having a pull list at your local ...