New York Public Library makes banned books free on its app for a limited time
It’s about availability, says the head of the NYPL, as the strain around allegations of censorship and banned books has heightened in step with a fraught political climate.
The campaign features a short list of titles that have received extra attention — some for decades, and others in recent months — as those championing the parental right to select the books their children and others have access to at school and in public arenas have sounded off against those who remember the much higher stakes that book banning has historically stood for. The difference perhaps right now is that some states are putting these complaints into law.
Any reader can download these selections for free on any Apple AAPL iOS or Android GOOGL device with an app called SimplyE.Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, said data collection shows the number of “challenged” books in 2021 jumped from recent years.
Regulating school curricula and titles on offer for pleasure reading is the latest controversial topic up for national debate, joining the tension around COVID-19 mask and vaccine mandates, a large gap in the understanding of Critical Race Theory and an imperfect reckoning with U.S. institutional racism.
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