Brooklyn Public Library offers access to banned ebooks to teens across the U.S
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#2If I had a teenager, I would've made sure they know about the great shadow library. [1]
It has a few advantages: there are no wait-times for the ebooks, it has no agenda other than providing access to books, and it actually has the real banned books you almost certainly wouldn't find in a public library.
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#3There’s a difference between something being paywalled snd something being hidden for being politically or socially uncomfortable. Tell people to look for the latter and understand why it’s banned.
Re: Brooklyn Public Library offers access to banned ebooks to teens across the U.S
#4And maybe in Texas they will offer to loan books to Park Slope children the Park Slope progressives find objectionable.
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#5And maybe in Texas they will offer to loan books to Park Slope children the Park Slope progressives find objectionable.
What banned books in the BPL do you recommend?
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#6How silly. As though there are gangs of teenagers throughout the country that can’t get “banned” books, whatever that means, despite having the freaking internet, and books being basically free. As though they’re living in communist China or something! Kids can buy these books, and get all sorts of other vile pornographic material online well before their teenage years. Local school boards are not the CCP and they have different liabilities, funding sources and constituencies than public libraries. Signaling likes this needs to be mocked or we end up with purity spirals. There is no problem being solved by this, just adults acting out a larp to feel like the saviors of “literature.” Why not actually save literature by promoting the reading of great books? There’s plenty of sex and debauchery in Shakespeare, even for Brooklyn kids like Howard Bloom (rip).
Re: Brooklyn Public Library offers access to banned ebooks to teens across the U.S
#7How silly. As though there are gangs of teenagers throughout the country that can’t get “banned” books, whatever that means, despite having the freaking internet, and books being basically free. As though they’re living in communist China or something! Kids can buy these books, and get all sorts of other vile pornographic material online well before their teenage years. Local school boards are not the CCP and they ha…
The banned books part is besides the point.
> allows anyone across the country between the ages of 13 and 21 to get a free eCard from BPL, which will give them access to 350,000 ebooks and 200,000 audiobooks, as well as access to databases.
The cool part is that BPL made all of their ebooks available to a group of people around the country. All libraries should go this route and not just for teens.
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#8And maybe in Texas they will offer to loan books to Park Slope children the Park Slope progressives find objectionable.
> books the Park Slope progressives find objectionable
Like?
I can think of plenty, but not anything that would be outright banned from the New York library system.
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#9> Anyone across the country between the ages of 13 and 21 to get a free eCard from BPL, which will give them access to 350,000 ebooks and 200,000 audiobooks, as well as access to databases.
Making hundreds of thousands of ebooks/audiobooks available around the country is an incredible use of library resources IMO. This feels like a serious development in library missions and I hope they don't stop at teens. Everyone around the country should have free access to these ebooks/audiobooks.
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