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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 16h

No surprises, sadly. Oregon library book challenges rise 20% with focus on protected groups buff.ly/ouyBneT

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

U.S. Audiobook Sales Grew 9% in 2025, to $2.43 Billion (news from June) buff.ly/4xlXOSx

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

Is this a trend? Because privatization goes so well in other arenas .... Fresno leaders sound alarm over possible privatization of county libraries buff.ly/IQmtobu

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Anywho.

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“Universities must stop falling in love with every new piece of software … that the tech industry pitches as essential. Administrators spend on software as if it is a durable investment, when all of the evidence shows that it … makes bloat worse.” globecollegetown.substack.com/p/higher-ed-...

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College campuses need to be liberated from their administrators

Higher ed is being strangled by absurd and costly rules. What message is that sending to students?

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

Ukraine’s Publishing Industry Nears Breaking Point Amid War buff.ly/lrL2sGn

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

On the factors driving up book prices: buff.ly/yVYsA8T

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

King's Lynn's 14th century register recognised by Unesco buff.ly/skEFVI3

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

or, everything old is new again... Around the World, Reading Is Becoming More Social buff.ly/jFGRpAM

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TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Twelve thousand book bans. Whatever happened to freedom? Book Bans Hit Unprecedented High in 2025–26 School Year, PEN Report Shows buff.ly/gY28NO5

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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

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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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