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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sheila Liming's essay “The End of Books” on libraries and what they do buff.ly/gee4m8W

TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"How do you feel in book club?" "I feel free." Books behind bars: Inside a women’s book club on Rikers Island | CNN buff.ly/Ti23HQd

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A library survives a war ... Syrian man uncovers his hidden library preserved behind a wall in Homs buff.ly/POqYaUJ

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A guide to the bookstores owned by your favorite authors buff.ly/kJtvaTo

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In book banning news: Vonnegut heirs can proceed with challenge to Utah book removal law buff.ly/GQw9fVU

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Could independent bookstores be treated as terrorists? Bookstores Sound Alarm Over Trump’s Anti-Terrorism Memo buff.ly/XW9HwA7

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Well, good. Wish she had her job back though. Arkansas county fired this librarian for opposing LGBTQ+ book censorship. Now it must pay $275K buff.ly/ikGutki

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Seems a bit overstated perhaps . . . Are hardback books things of 'great beauty' or a dying art? buff.ly/AHVarpX

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The New Yorker's take on the destructive scanning business. Destroying Books to Build a Mind buff.ly/gg8d2fe

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Back when the US understood that it's good for people to read . . . In the 'biggest book giveaway in history' WWII soldiers received pocket-sized reads buff.ly/ukZOjEA

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's not every day AP News covers papyrus... Inside one of the world's few crash courses in conserving and caring for ancient papyrus manuscripts buff.ly/GctgU3Z

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

1,700-year-old fragment of "Odyssey" discovered between pages of a library book buff.ly/Khu54NY

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Russian strikes destroy 12 million books in Ukraine ahead of new school year buff.ly/VAR8J3a

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What Do Booksellers Make Of “The End Of Reading”? | Defector buff.ly/wI93VTW

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Painted Book Cover Is Back buff.ly/IGPV8bF

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What does BookTok want? Common Readers | The Point Magazine buff.ly/TMTYTab

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Who Digitized Your Sources? Exploitative Prison Labour and the Hidden Costs of Online Archives activehistory.ca/blog/2026/04...

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Wonderful object here, via the Public Domain Review: Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87) publicdomainreview.org/collection/l...

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Good archive news: Decades of comedy gold: Mel Brooks donates document archive to National Comedy Center www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A school librarian responds to Patrick's threat to take more than 2,000 books out of TX school libraries: Come and Take Them, Dan Patrick www.texasobserver.org/dan-patrick-...

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“A lot of special editions have become more of a collectible than a thing people actually read" Subscription Addiction www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

More book banning news Utah just banned the book that inspired the hit film ‘Precious’ from all public schools www.sltrib.com/news/educati...

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If you've ever set type by hand, you'll be astonished at the speeds here. Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races before the Age of Linotype publicdomainreview.org/essay/twilig...

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Helpful to see this all pulled together. All the Companies Scanning Books for AI downtownbrown.substack.com/p/all-the-co...

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Back to book banning news, sadly: Lt. Gov Dan Patrick says Texas is 'coming for the books' in public school libraries www.sacurrent.com/news/politic...

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Relevant to the broader discussion about reading and attention: Is learning to read in NYC schools getting in the way of reading whole books? gothamist.com/news/is-lear...

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

So many sprayed edges .... Middle Grade Novels Get a Glow-Up www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Dolly Parton's contributions to literacy will outlive the star, just like she planned www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You be the judge: should my girlfriend stop annotating her books? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Gotta love marginalia! Marginalia Maxxing, Early Modern Style | Folger Shakespeare Library www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

News from May: Publishers File Lawsuit Against Meta, Mark Zuckerberg www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Part of the history of bookstores as essential spaces: Ticknor & Fields, the Old Corner Bookstore, and the Hub of the American Renaissance | Bibliomania blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/...

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 19/08/2026

Most printed ephemera wasn't meant to last. In VANISHING CULTURE, Eve Scarborough explores the hidden stories inside type ephemera. 📚 Read for free or purchase in print: archive.org/details/vani... 🧵

What happens to old menus, concert programs, and type specimen booklets once they've served their purpose?

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Are indie bookstores being pushed out by rising rents? www.kpbs.org/news/arts-cu...

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

From Atlanta Bar Rags to Victorian Erotica: Newly Available (from June) LGBTQ+ Rare Books & Print at the Rose Library – Rose Library News scholarblogs.emory.edu/marbl/2026/0...

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Stephanie Kimbro Dolin @firstbitepress.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Music to my heart. Sounds of the Press. #letterpress #books #handmade #printing #limitededition

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

REMINDER TO SUBMIT! #BookHistory #Publishing #Authorship #Reading #Bibliography

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Some great images here! exhibit opened in April, but of continuing relevance. Read a book, flip off a Nazi: when reading meant resistance – in pictures www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

New reading textbooks, same problem: Why children’s reading scores in the US aren’t rising theconversation.com/new-reading-...

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

What the panic over Gen Z’s reading habits gets wrong theconversation.com/what-the-pan...

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

From April: A Swedish Library Forgot to Close Its Doors and Something Beautiful Happened www.zmescience.com/science/news...

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Wouldn't you love to know how or why it got bricked up? A book found bricked in a fireplace is returned to an Australian library, 150 years overdue buff.ly/zdrThLV

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Perspective from a writer who's served as a judge: Book Prizes Don't Work How You Think buff.ly/j7e4U3g

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you have ever wondered whether it's possible to carve a font out of potatoes, this is for you: HVD Bodedo buff.ly/cYdMc0k

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

UCLA rare books heist exposes shortfalls buff.ly/ymNPe05

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Jessica Kingsley Publishers to offer ‘safety covers’ for books buff.ly/X880Qjz

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The rise of the ‘hot literati’: how reading became sexy buff.ly/Xb3MaMU

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The 11 most challenged books of 2025, according to the American Library Association buff.ly/MoiJ73p

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The Bookseller's Bullying Survey: staff welfare an issue for sector, as Hachette and Sweet Cherry are singled out for criticism buff.ly/lnSEwkR

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Around eight million books were destroyed in Kharkiv yesterday. Many Ukrainians are responding by buying books from the affected publishers and from KnyhoLand, the bookstore chain that also used the warehouse. I bought these today.

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