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May

How I Corrupted America's Youth: Getting angry letters is no laughing matter—and the same goes for censorship

Excellent article.
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May

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May

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Apr

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I don’t really like short stories, but this is tempting.
27
Apr

Local And Metro Newspapers With Paywalls | paidContent

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This chart lists a bunch of newspapers, their circulation, paywall rate and number of subscribers per site. It’s an absolutely fantastic reference for the next time someone asks you how feasible it would be to put up a paywall on your site.
27
Apr

Library books end up in trash

The Doylestown Township man wanted to reread a travelogue about an Englishman’s epic trek along the Continental Divide from New Mexico into Canada, but the book wasn’t on the shelf where it should have been, Everett said. He asked a librarian about the book who told him that it hadn’t been checked out since 2005 and might have been removed as part of the library’s process of “weeding” books from its collection, he said.

Everett said he understands the fact that the library must get rid of outdated and worn-out books, but he said he’s deeply troubled by the fact that thousands of books wind up in a trash bin behind the library bound for a recycling plant.

As a library patron, I can totally understand where this man is coming from. I mean, who likes the idea of throwing out (recycling) books? No one. But as a librarian, the value of weeding is completely necessary. We cannot keep every book, public libraries aren’t the Library of Congress or huge university libraries (and even they have to weed, too). Weeding is painful, liberating and heartbreaking. But it’s also necessary in order for libraries to be able to get new materials. If we didn’t weed, there wouldn’t be any place to put the new stuff.
22
Apr

Publish or Perish: Can the iPad topple the Kindle, and save the book business?
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Apr

I know it sucks, but in a way, it’s good. Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?

- Will Grayson, Will Grayson (via merspers)
21
Apr

The first president of the United States of America borrowed two books from the New York Society Library in 1789 but failed to return them. Adjusted for inflation, he has since racked up $300,000 (£195,000) in fines for being some 220 years late. The New York Society Library says it will not pursue the fine. It would simply like the books back.

- BBC News - George Washington’s $300,000 library book fine
21
Apr

And so when you sometimes feel strange, when a pang tugs at your heart or it seems like the moment has already happened — or when you look up in the sky and are surprised by the sight of bright Jupiter between the clouds, and everything suddenly seems stuffed with a vast significance — consider that some other person somewhere is entangled with you in time, and is trying to give some push to the situation, some little help to make things better. Then put your shoulder to whatever wheel you have at hand, whatever moment you’re in, and push too! Push like Galileo pushed! And together we may crab sideways toward the good.

- Galileo’s Dream, Kim Stanley Robinson