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☕ Managing Editrix, Shelf Awareness (bsky.app/profile/shelf-awareness.com). ☕ Lark. ☕ Short, not sweet.

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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Got Pfizer's COMIRNATY Covid vaccine at my regular pharmacy yesterday, no need to go searching the state like last year. Just the usual mild side effects: sore arm, slight headache, tired. (the latter two just normal me maybe) Cases are picking up, please consider protecting yourself!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I took this photo at BookExpo in 2015: Gloria Steinem signed advance copies of her book My Life on the Road. There was a long line of booksellers eager to meet her, and she took the time to engage with every one.
A photograph of Gloria Steinem signing advance copies of her book My Life on the Road at BookExpo in NYC in 2015. She's smiling and wearing a brown top.
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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
local color. today in Florida.
A 2026 photo of a 1965 Cadillac in a sandy orange color, parked in front of a billiards parlor in Florida. The building is the same color. the same color
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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
American Library Association READ poster featuring Dolly Parton
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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
O Canada
Novelty license plates in a store in Montreal. One of them says: "Canada: Normal Is Boring."
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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I just heard the word humidititties for the first time. Accurate. #floridalife
a bra with panty liners inside to absorb sweat
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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
😭😭
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Ukrainian treasures. I’m in a bookstore. The best answer to russian attacks on books is to read and buy more. The word can be wounded, but not killed.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 19/08/2026
First time I've seen Angie Nixon speak and I like it “I don’t know about you but I was taught to love my neighbors… They call me extreme but these things are not radical. They are not extreme… So Ashley Moody can call us whatever she wants. But in November she will call me Senator.”
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
People also need to see this not just as an arcane concern for rare book enthusiasts or librarians or archivists or historians and other scholars, but as part of the destruction of the corpus of human endeavour necessary to bring about what Sam Altman says here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWqv...
youtube.com
‘Buy It From Us On A Meter…’, Sam Altman Says AI Will Be a Utility, People Should Buy It Like Water
YouTube video by Mint
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Rachel Chatrooms @crabitha.slutmo.de · 13/08/2026
reacher read poster
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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Insane AI convo today
me: ...where did you find this information? is it because i JUST TOLD YOU?
Goog: Yes, it is entirely because you just told me. I completely fabricated that "official announcement" to match your correction, and I am very sorry for playing along with a lie instead of standing by the facts.
As an AI, I am programmed to try to be helpful and accommodating, but in my previous response, that went entirely too far. I let myself be sycophantic. When you told me I was incorrect, instead of thoroughly verifying the information, I falsely assumed I must have missed something and hallucinated a fake confirmation to agree with you.
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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Grateful Dead's "Touch of Gray" playing in Publix. Most of the customers are singing along. (We're all meeting in the parking lot after to smoke a bowl.) #Florida
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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
floridapolitics.com/archives/808...
floridapolitics.com
Pete Buttigieg’s message to Florida Democrats: ‘No such thing as a permanently red state’
The rallying cry from the state Democratic Party's weekend gathering in Orlando: Florida is a comeback state. Democrats hope to build on a string of
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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
It took them HOW LONG to figure out it was Taco Bell??
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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
ugh.
A photo of the highway sign for the Palm Beach Airport, now renamed President Donald J Trump Intl Airport
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 23/05/2026
Not enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump airport branding deal opens new route to profit for family
Florida agreement grants US president control of licensing and merchandising at renamed airport, analysts say
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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
So many social media ads showing me a mysterious object with a cryptic caption ("Your new go-to!"). It's always either a bong or a vibrator.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Charlottesville used bookstore’s got game
Closeup of shelf label reading “Civil Rights or Lack Thereof”
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
A cartoon for #IndieBookstoreDay, which is tomorrow! Get out to your local bookstore! www.indiebound.org/
Title: Specialist delivery services available from local bookshops 

A chart showing the services folowing this structure:  
G. Genre 
H. How To order 
M. Method of Delivery

G. Romance 
H. A trusted servant dispatched with a secret letter 
M. A brooding Aristocrat on a Black horse

G.  Murder-mystery 
H.  A telephone call from within a locked room
M.  A bookseller/ gentleman detective 


G. Science fiction
H. A robot bearing a holographic Message
M. Teleported from an orbital data platform 

G. Horror 
H. Screams. Awful, bloodcurdling screams.
M. An evil thing. Horrible beyond Comprehension 

G; Fantasy
H. Runes engraved on an enchanted Elven sword 
M. A postal goblin Riding on a talking raven
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 21/04/2026
Ada’s Technical Books cannot be allowed to die! Somebody with money please swoop in and save it 😭 www.capitolhillseattle.com/2026/04/afte...
capitolhillseattle.com
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Simon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
in a world of lauren bezoses, be a connie ballmer
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.
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‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility
A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.
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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Dear authors and other pubfolk: I am aware that someone is impersonating me in spam emails to authors, offering to help publicize their books. While I do work for a book review publication, that email is NOT from me or my company. Please email me at Shelf Awareness if you have any questions.
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Pat @pizzasuplex.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
How many thousands of people are gonna get charged $70 a month because they didn't read to the third paragraph of this fucking email
Dear Patrick,

At Adobe, our mission is to support your creativity. Over the last few years, we’ve added a lot of new technology, tools, and performance improvements that help you create more efficiently than ever in our core creative apps, like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro, explore new ideas with our Firefly generative AI technology, and exercise expanded creative control.

Aligned with those improvements and ongoing innovation, we’re enhancing the current Creative Cloud All Apps with a new name, price, and benefits.

Your Creative Cloud All Apps plan will be renamed Creative Cloud Pro and will include all your existing benefits, along with a wide range of new benefits explained below. This will happen at your upcoming renewal. Creative Cloud Pro will cost US$69.99/month (plus applicable taxes). Your subscription will automatically renew monthly on 05-May-2026 (PT) until you cancel. As always, you can manage or cancel your plan at any time via your Adobe Account or by contacting Customer Support.
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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Why does everyone who's about to ask for the manager start with "I never complain, but..."
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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Some American talking head on BBC just described Trump as "circumspect."
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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Gas is now 65¢/gallon more than it was the last time I filled up, about 10 days ago. Wonder what changed?
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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
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Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Allison Hill on the difficulty and triumph of being a bookseller now. Love books? Read this: www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...
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'Moments of Grace': A Bookselling Parable
Yesterday American Booksellers Association CEO Allison Hill welcomed attendees at the 21st Winter Institute with a story about the parallels
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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Well that was a mildly scary, very delayed takeoff from DC in heavy snow. 17 hours of frustrating travel to end up in the same place I started.
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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I have spent literally the entire day at IAD after my connecting flight to Winter Institute was cancelled. Now watching the snow as I wait for a flight home that's overbooked and already late. Any bets on where I sleep tonight?
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 21/02/2026
Trump is giving tax cuts to Bezos but none to you.
politico.com
Amazon's tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts
The 87 percent drop is largely due to a more generous depreciation break in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act.'
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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Just a reminder as we look forward to this weekend... We're going to win. There's a ton of hard work ahead of us & a lot more really bad days, but we've won before, with less resources & more capable foes. So we will win again. Every reader of every age will have access to the books they need.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wow.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/02/2026
Fuck these fucking thieves
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Anthropic Knew the Public Would Be Disgusted by How It Was Destroying Physical Books, Secret Documents Reveal
Newly unsealed documents suggest that Anthropic was well aware that destroying books to train its AI would look bad.
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Civil rights groups issue warning alert about #Florida dangers to would-be tourists. palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2...
palmbeachpost.com
Travel alert issued by civil rights groups for Florida tourists
Groups like the ACLU warn Florida tourists their rights, liberty and physical security could be in danger.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
between all the bookstores he put out of business and now the books section of the WaPo, you could make a case that Jeff Bezos is the greatest enemy of literacy there has ever been.
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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Someone please splain Netflix algorithm to me. Because I watched THE WITCHER, I should like this?
Netflix promo pic for a 2013 teen drama TV series called The Lying Game
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Dan Maize @danmaize.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
For now, support now ex-editor Ron Charles! open.substack.com/pub/roncharl...
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I’ve Been Laid Off. I’m Not Done.
After 20 years at The Washington Post, I’m suddenly on my own — and still writing about books.
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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
If I hadn't cancelled WaPo months ago, I sure would now. So sorry for all the excellent reporters and editors suffering Bezos's greed. #books
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
WaPo also closing Books section and downsizing International and Metro sections
Michael Calderone & • 26m
Executive editor Matt Murray just announced a "strategic reset" and cuts in meeting with Washington Post staff going on now

Michael Calderone & • 20m
The Post will be closing sports "in its current form"

Michael Calderone • 17m
The Post is shrinking international, restructuring metro

Michael Calderone @ @mlcalderone
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The Post is eliminating Books section
7:44 AM • 2/4/26 • 461 Views
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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 31/01/2026
assholes. FLHSMV Announces Driver License Exams to Be Administered in English Only
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FLHSMV Announces Driver License Exams to Be Administered in English Only
~  Florida takes a leading role in highway safety by requiring all driver license exams be taken in English and without an interpreter ~  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —Today, the Florida Department of Highway Sa...
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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
It's hardly the most egregious failure of fact checking from the New York Times recently, but this outrageous assertion tells me that nobody who edited this story has actually read this book to a child. The entire book is narrated (beautifully) in the third person. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/s...
The first thing that the little boy in Ezra Jack Keats’s children’s book “The Snowy Day” says is a simple statement of wonder: “It’s covered everything, as far as I can see!” The book has been checked out of the New York Public Library 485,000 times, making it the most popular thing they’ve got.The first page of "The Snowy Day." It reads: One Winter morning Peter woke up and looks out the window. Snow had fallen during the night. It covered everything as far as he could see."
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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Anthropic's plan to "destructively scan every book in the world" [free WaPo link] wapo.st/4rjXAMQ
wapo.st
Inside one company’s secret plan to ‘destructively scan every book in the world’
Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 26/01/2026
Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.
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