The New York Public Library announced it will make some commonly banned books available for free, including: 📚 'Speak' 📚 'King and the Dragonflies' 📚 'Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You' 📚 'The Catcher in the Rye'
The project, a partnership with the publishers Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers and Scholastic, will offer four books through the Books for All Collection.
Typically, books at the NYPL are available only to New Yorkers who have a library card, but anyone can access the books via the NYPL's e-reader app, which will offer unlimited downloads with or without a library card through May."King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D.
"All people have the right to read or not read what they want—we are all entitled to make those choices ... Any effort to eliminate those choices stands in opposition to freedom of choice, and we cannot let that happen." "The Library’s role is to make sure no perspective, no idea, no identity is erased. People have the right to read or not read what they want, but those books need to be available—for the teen who has questions and wants to privately find answers; for the adult who is curious about subjects for which they have no personal experience; for those who want to do their own research and make informed decisions based on fact," the NYPL added.
"Making these books available shouldn’t feel like an act of defiance, but sadly, it is. And we are proud to be part of it."
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