Anne Arundel County Public Library reveals its most popular books of 2025

The Anne Arundel County Public Library has announced which five fiction and five nonfiction books have been checked out the ...
Digital Trends

Paper rules: Why borrowing an e-book from your library is so difficult

Two weeks ago, the annual Book Expo America (BEA) conference hit New York City. A gathering of publishers, booksellers, librarians, authors, reviewers, and book bloggers, BEA is the CES or E3 of the ...
PhillyVoice

Free Library's most-borrowed book of the year was written by a local author

Philly residents checked out all kinds of books from the Free Library this past year — but one twisty, time-jumping mystery ...
NPR

In the battle over books, who gets to decide what's age-appropriate at libraries?

For months, Carolyn Harrison and a small band of activists have been setting up folding tables with an array of what they call "bad books" outside the public library in Idaho Falls, Idaho. As Harrison ...
NPR

An overdue library book makes a return trip to the shelves — 119 years later

BOSTON — On Feb. 14, 1904, someone curious about the emerging possibilities of a key force of nature checked out James Clerk Maxwell's "An Elementary Treatise on Electricity" from the New Bedford Free ...