Books

The US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts (10/9/2023) Brewster Kahle in the Guardian

Advocacy Groups Are Helping Drive a Rise in Book Bans (9/19/2022)

Attempts to Ban Books Are Accelerating and Becoming More Divisive (9/16/2022) NYT

Unite Against Book Bans

Unite Against Book Bans

Archive.org

Open Books

Author Talks

Books (Internet Archive)

Open Access Books

Digital Public Library of America

Banned Books

Library Freedom Project

List of digital library projects

About the Open Library

Open Culture

Free Books to Download

OpenEbooks

Self Publishing

Createspace

Smashwords

Blurb.Com

World Digital Library

WWW Virtual Library

Public Library of Science

Library Thing

Books.Google.com

Banned Books

Public Books

Other On-Line Collections

Ebooks

Google Books

World Library

Scribd

Book Swapping Sites

BookMooch

Paperback Swap

TitleTrader (trade books, CDs, DVDs, Video Games)

TextSwap (Trade textbooks on-line.)

Book Reviews

NY Review of Books
Book Slut
Bookwire
LA Times Books
Moby Lives
NY Times Books
Rain Taxi
VLS
Wash Post Books

Online Publishing

LULU.com

Publishers

Books Unbanned

What’s the Best Book of the Past 125 Years? We Asked Readers to Decide. (12/28/2021) NYT

Conservatives Are Just Openly Endorsing Book Burning Now (11/11/2021)

What Books Should Biden Read? We Asked 22 Writers (NYT 12/22/2020)

100 Notable Books of 2020

6 Books to Understand the Precarious Political Moment (1/11/2021)

The ‘Trump Bump’ for Books (12/2020)

The World of Books Braces for a Newly Ominous Future (3/16/2020)

25 Best Books of 2018

Can We Create A National Digital Library ?

The State of America's Libraries 2014 (pdf)

Recommended Books

Each of these books describe a different aspect of the problems. Keep in mind The parable of the blind men and the elephant.

Connecticut Authors

Connecticut Muse is a celebration of contemporary Connecticut authors featured in a quarterly newsletter. Each issue focuses on a different literary genre and includes book reviews, author interviews, a listing of upcoming author appearances and information on new releases.

Related Resources:

Digital Public Library of America

Open Access Journals

Open Source Textbooks in Connecticut

Reading list from the American Freedom Campaign

Forbidden Bookshelf (Mark Crispin Miller)

Public Integrity

Guerilla Open Access Manifesto

Recommended books from Greening Princeton

Beacon Broadside

Paul Krugman's reading list

The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books From 1990-2000

Most Challenged Books of the 21st century (2000-2005)

Classics of Liberalism

Marcantonio Library

europeana.eu

World Digital Library

Open Content Alliance

Publish Your Own Book

Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Elizabeth Kolbert