View Gallery: Protest against book bans in MelbourneĪ concentrated effort by conservative groups across the country has led to a wave of challenged books nationwide, hitting a record high in 2022 that was nearly double the year before, according to the American Library Association. Florida sees rush of challenges to books in school, public libraries You must be at least 13 years old to get a card and check out books. Not all banned books are available in ebook form. You can check out up to five titles at a time from The Banned Book Club and you have 21 days to read them. "Every time a book is banned from a library, we're going to help put it right back." "Our mission is to provide anyone who is in a library that has banned a book access to the digital version for free," the club's website says. Kendi and many more fiction and non-fiction books. Johnson, "We Were Eight Years in Power" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, "Gender Queer" by Maia Kobabe, "Beloved" and "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison, "How to be an Anti-Racist" by Ibram X. A quick check in central Florida found oft-challenged books such "The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou, "It Gets Better" by Dan Savage and Terry Miller, "All Boys Aren't Blue" by George M. Once you get a free virtual Banned Book Club library card, the Palace app (with your permission) checks where you are at the moment and presents a catalog consisting only of the books that have been banned from the libraries in your community. The Banned Book Club is now one of those catalogs, and it changes depending on where you are. The Banned Book Club works with the Palace app (available for iOS and Android), which allows you to choose from multiple library catalogs. There are already library apps available, such as Libby and Hoopla, which allow you to borrow books and other media and download them directly to your mobile devices with a valid library card. "Today book bans are one of the greatest threats to our freedom, and we have created The Banned Book Club to leverage the dual powers of libraries and digital technology to ensure that every American can access the books they want to read." Bracken, executive director of Digital Public Library of America. "At DPLA, our mission is to ensure access to knowledge for all and we believe in the power of technology to further that access," said John S. This program makes ebook and audiobook versions of books that have been banned in your area available for free, temporary download through a library e-reader app. The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to amplifying the value of libraries, announced Thursday that they have partnered with the nonprofit library-support organization Lyrasis and The Palace Project to launch The Banned Book Club. Having problems finding books in Florida that have been banned in the local library? It just got a little easier. Watch Video: Banned books: What a new wave of restrictions could mean for students
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