For a growing number of Americans, reading is more than leafing through a physical book. Between 2011 and 2021, the share of Americans who listened to an audiobook more than doubled, from 11% to 23%, ...

Massachusetts Democrats are leading a pushback against what they call "politically motivated book bans" with a bill that would set new rules for challenging books in school and public libraries. The ...

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RUTHERFORD COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — Whistleblower Rutherford County Library Systems Director Luanne James claims the RCLS Board Chair, Cody York, instructed her to remove multiple books from the public ...

If you’re still paying full price for audiobooks while you’re in uniform, you’re probably leaving money on the table. Between public libraries, free apps, and the DoD’s own digital library, you can ...

If the library system in the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario, handed out fines for overdue books, the one for a recently returned tome titled “The Excellent Woman” would be a whopper. The Victorian ...

PITTSFIELD — Some 40,000 books destroyed by mold and insects — it’s a librarian’s worst nightmare. In August, Karen Carreras-Hubbard, coordinator of library services at Berkshire Community College, ...

Pearland school board members knew they couldn't personally vet hundreds of books for “indecent” or “profane” content prohibited under a new state law. So when they met this fall to consider a ...

Diana Friend visited Eye on NE Kansas with details on the next Friends of the Topeka and Shawnee Co. Public Library quarterly book and media sale. Friend said the sale features thousands of books, ...

NEWPORT NEWS — Cookbooks, Bibles, bestsellers, and even a guide to belly dancing were among the roughly 150 books mixed in with trash next to a Main Street Library dumpster Friday morning. According ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and LGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for youngsters ...

The Logan Library’s Banned Books Week is doing just the opposite of banning books by hosting an array of events disapproving of censorship, encouraging patrons to read previously or currently banned ...