As the internet and the media continue to lament the death of reading, Silent Book Club readers around the world are doing just fine, thanks. Yesterday, chapters around the UK celebrated a Day of Reading with bookstore crawls, park reads, audiobook walks, and filling up cozy cafes with quiet readers. And the USA Today published a story on 10 fun ways to fight the end of reading. Viva la reading revolution!
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Book-related links and other good stuff online
Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot Seattle Times
Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over AI training The Guardian
There’s an Ancient Solution to Our Modern Crisis of Attention The New York Times
Can we map The Odyssey? How ancient geographers and modern researchers have traced Odysseus’s travels The Conversation
Silicon Valley has a science fiction problem Aeon
The Comforting Resurgence of ‘Grandma Hobbies’ The New York Times
Gen Z wants to hang out with real people in real life The New York Times
Reading America: 250 Years, 250 Books The New York Public Library
The overlooked Virginia Woolf novel about to hit cinemas The Conversation
Are readers losing the line between a book and the idea of a book? LitHub
Little House on the Prairie enters its Netflix era Salon
Are we living through the end of reading? All Things Considered
The rise of the “As seen on TikTok” sticker The New Yorker
Literature Has a Loneliness Problem, Not a Reading Problem TimesNow
Are books dead? 10 fun ways to fight ‘the end of reading’ USA Today
The analog revival: Toronto’s growing movement of silent reading parties Streets of Toronto
Silent reading clubs are attracting a growing following around the world The Star
Silent reading clubs: A quiet social trend with no assigned books DPA (Yahoo Life)
Silent Book Club: Building a Community of Readers Philippine Information Agency
Prince William Woman Launches New Mobile Bookshop Northern Virginia Magazine
Why Fayetteville readers are embracing the Silent Book Club trend The Fayetteville Observer
Six solo-dining options to eat (and read) alone in Denver Denver Westword
Chicagoans are swapping crowded bars and noisy clubs for slower nights out Secret Chicago
The bookworm’s guide to Canberra Our Canberra
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