It Was Inevitable That the Book Ban Wars Would Reach Book Stores
It Was Inevitable That the Book Ban Wars Would Reach Book Stores
A judge slapped a temporary hold on an Arkansas law that would criminalize librarians and bookstore owners for giving kids access to The Bluest Eye or something.
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I just want to throw this out for anyone who doesn't know:
LIBBY APP allows you to utilize multiple library cards to check out digital books and audiobooks from around the country. Many books that are not in circulation in certain places are easily accessible in others. I have two cards from within my state and find just about every book I need.
For books that are harder to find go to:
Just about anything you could ever want to read is seeded on this site by peer-to-peer sharing. Do not let anyone take away your ability to learn.
But keep fighting .. these websites and library apps are not safe. Don't forget Z-library and even the Internet Archive lost a huge case which makes theri archiving/digitising of books illegal .. They are attacking on all fronts. We can't become complacent thinking we have options. Soon, we won't.
I agree with your sentiment, but would ask that you reflect on how you are fighting it.
Vote, confront the opposition, protest... These are all options for fighting on a micro-scale. They all affect very little.
Run for office, get elected, write legislation. These are other ways to fight. But they are time consuming and a single platform candidate rarely gets elected. Still small scale.
So how do we fight?
We have to fight in the same way we fought reddits attempt to control its userbase. We have to jump ship and create a network of federated library databases which serve to make book bans impossible.
That in part is what Anna's archive is. It's a search engine of these databases.
The last refuge of this knowledge is within ourselves. You may or may not be a big reader. Idk. But you should begin reading in ernest to become a repository and deceminator of knowledge. Many people that say they are fighting, really mean complaining on the Internet void. They hardley read the books they say they are protecting. Do more than these people. Read, retain, disseminate, and fight in ways the people who want to take away your freedom don't understand. I guarantee you the people who want this are not computer litterate. Use their illiteracy against them. Fight on the macro scale with technology and reading.
That's all well and good, but we shouldn't get complacent about them trying to take books out of local places where access isn't limited to people with computers/smartphones.
Yeah, that's good info. But these people know they can't take the information from people that already know about it. They're trying to keep new people from learning about it.