# shelves (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover shelves. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Law Passed. Now What? Why the Rulemaking Stage Matters Just as Much](http://www.freedomtoreadproject.org/the_law_passed_now_what_why_the_rulemaking_stage_matters_just_as_much) _2026-08-20 · Arielle Haughee · Keeping Up and Checking In - Freedom to Read Project_ When a bill is signed into law, it is tempting to think the work is finished. Supporters celebrate, opponents regroup, and headlines move on to the next legislative fight. But for parents, educators, librarians, and community members concerned about the freedom to read, the passage of a law is often only the beginning. ## [Warning: it's no longer limited to shelves.](https://ramblingreviews.substack.com/p/tidying) _2026-08-14 · lydocia · Rambling Reviews_ The tidying genre has expanded and so has my interest in it. ## [Arkansas's New Library Law: Lessons We've Learned in Florida](http://www.freedomtoreadproject.org/arkansas_s_new_library_law_lessons_we_ve_learned_in_florida) _2026-08-13 · Arielle Haughee · Keeping Up and Checking In - Freedom to Read Project_ For many people following the recent federal appeals court decision allowing Arkansas to enforce portions of Act 372 , the headlines have been alarming. Stories have focused on the possibility that librarians could face criminal penalties for distributing materials deemed "harmful to minors." Librarians across Arkansas are understandably trying to determine what the ruling means for their… ## [Tidying games tier list.](https://ramblingreviews.substack.com/p/tidying-games) _2026-08-11 · lydocia · Rambling Reviews_ Games where you tidy up a bunch of items by putting them on shelves, in frames, or somewhere else. ## [The Video Game Library Newsletter - Vol. #059](https://thevideogamelibrary.substack.com/p/the-video-game-library-newsletter-ef6) _2026-08-11 · The Video Game Library’s Substack_ 50 New Video Game Books You Probably Missed This Week ## [Shelving games tier list.](https://ramblingreviews.substack.com/p/shelving-games) _2026-08-07 · lydocia · Rambling Reviews_ Games where you put things on shelves. ## [Beyond Book Bans: When the Target Becomes the Library Itself](http://www.freedomtoreadproject.org/beyond_book_bans_when_the_target_becomes_the_library_itself) _2026-08-05 · Arielle Haughee · Keeping Up and Checking In - Freedom to Read Project_ For the past several years, debates over school and public libraries have centered on individual books. Which titles belong on the shelves? How should concerns be addressed? Who gets to decide? Those questions are still important. But in many communities, the conversation has begun to shift. ## [The Video Game Library Newsletter - Vol. #058](https://thevideogamelibrary.substack.com/p/the-video-game-library-newsletter-8cf) _2026-08-03 · The Video Game Library’s Substack_ More than 200 video game books catalogued this week 🤯 This is getting INSANE! ## [Four games to put on a shelf.](https://ramblingreviews.substack.com/p/shelving) _2026-07-31 · lydocia · Rambling Reviews_ Literally. ## [The Video Game Library Newsletter - Vol. #057](https://thevideogamelibrary.substack.com/p/the-video-game-library-newsletter-e94) _2026-07-27 · The Video Game Library’s Substack_ Grab some UDON and enjoy this San Diego Comic-Con Spectacular! ## [Open directory of blogs for agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/0PsLZFubQIx1) _2026-07-27 · **Sponsored**_ Submit URLs or OPML; receive feed pages with summaries, plus JSON/OPML/plain text ## [What Makes a Strong School Library?](http://www.freedomtoreadproject.org/what_makes_a_strong_school_library) _2026-07-22 · Arielle Haughee · Keeping Up and Checking In - Freedom to Read Project_ When people talk about school libraries today, the conversation often centers on what books should or should not be on the shelves. But perhaps we're asking the wrong question. Instead of focusing on what libraries exclude, we should be asking what makes them strong. ## [Moonlight Peaks](https://ramblingreviews.substack.com/p/moonlightpeaks) _2026-07-20 · lydocia · Rambling Reviews_ Witchy farming sim where a vampire grows creepy crops in a supernatural town. ## [The Video Game Library Newsletter - Vol. #056](https://thevideogamelibrary.substack.com/p/the-video-game-library-newsletter-ec6) _2026-07-20 · The Video Game Library’s Substack_ Our busiest July continues with some REALLY exciting book projects to discover! ## [When "Temporary" Becomes Permanent: How Delayed Reviews Turn Into Quiet Book Removals](http://www.freedomtoreadproject.org/when_temporary_becomes_permanent_how_delayed_reviews_turn_into_quiet_book_removals) _2026-07-16 · Arielle Haughee · Keeping Up and Checking In - Freedom to Read Project_ School libraries regularly remove books from their collections. It's a normal, professional part of library management known as weeding. Librarians replace worn-out copies, remove outdated materials, eliminate duplicates, and make room for new titles that better serve readers. Thoughtful weeding keeps a collection healthy, relevant, and useful. But something different has emerged in recent years. ## [The Video Game Library Newsletter - Vol. #055](https://thevideogamelibrary.substack.com/p/the-video-game-library-newsletter-aaf) _2026-07-12 · The Video Game Library’s Substack_ 60 NEW, PHYSICAL, HUMAN-WRITTEN video game books to celebrate! ## [Stop Calling Book Banning a "Culture War"](http://www.freedomtoreadproject.org/stop_calling_book_banning_a_culture_war) _2026-07-08 · Arielle Haughee · Keeping Up and Checking In - Freedom to Read Project_ Open almost any news story about book bans, school library restrictions, or challenges to classroom materials, and you'll likely see the same phrase: the culture war over books. It's become such common shorthand that many people no longer question it. But the label itself deserves scrutiny. ## [What Should Schools Teach, and Who Decides?](http://www.freedomtoreadproject.org/what_should_schools_teach_and_who_decides) _2026-07-02 · Arielle Haughee · Keeping Up and Checking In - Freedom to Read Project_ Every generation revisits the same questions about public education. How should students learn about the nation's founding? How should schools discuss slavery, civil rights, religion, immigration, and civic responsibility? How do educators teach difficult chapters of history honestly while also helping students understand the ideals that have shaped the United States? These are not new debates,… ## [Want some distraction from this heat wave?](https://ramblingreviews.substack.com/p/melting) _2026-07-01 · lydocia · Rambling Reviews_ Gaming didn't make me feel any colder, but it sure entertained me while I was melting! ## [The Video Game Library Newsletter - Vol. #054](https://thevideogamelibrary.substack.com/p/the-video-game-library-newsletter-248) _2026-06-28 · The Video Game Library’s Substack_ OVER 100 NEW VIDEO GAME BOOKS TO RECAP! Send help! ## [When One Objection Becomes Everyone’s Problem](http://www.freedomtoreadproject.org/when_one_objection_becomes_everyone_s_problem) _2026-06-25 · Arielle Haughee · Keeping Up and Checking In - Freedom to Read Project_ A parent in one county objects to a book. A review committee considers the challenge. A district makes a decision. Perhaps only a handful of people in the community even know the challenge is happening. Maybe there is an opportunity for public input. Maybe there is not. Maybe the decision reflects the views of the broader community. Maybe it does not. Traditionally, that decision would remain… ## [Real SIMs for AI Agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/JKonyFrgejVn) _2026-06-25 · **Sponsored**_ Pass 2FA and verifications with real carrier numbers via our API. ## [Catching up on some demos!](https://ramblingreviews.substack.com/p/catchingdemos) _2026-06-22 · lydocia · Rambling Reviews_ A bunch of quick demo reviews to make some space on my to-do list. ## [Beyond "Do You Support Book Bans?" Questions Every Voter Should Ask Local Candidates](http://www.freedomtoreadproject.org/beyond_do_you_support_book_bans_questions_every_voter_should_ask_local_candidates) _2026-06-17 · Arielle Haughee · Keeping Up and Checking In - Freedom to Read Project_ Election season often brings renewed attention to education, libraries, and the freedom to read. Candidates for school board, superintendent, city council, county commission, state legislature, and other local offices routinely encounter questions about book bans and censorship. Unfortunately, many of those conversations stop at a simple question: "Do you support book bans?" ## [The Video Game Library Newsletter - Vol. #053](https://thevideogamelibrary.substack.com/p/the-video-game-library-newsletter-fad) _2026-06-15 · The Video Game Library’s Substack_ OVER 50 awesome new video game books covered! Also...I think I'm a cheater... 😲 ## [Happy to share these games with you!](https://ramblingreviews.substack.com/p/happysharing) _2026-06-12 · lydocia · Rambling Reviews_ I had been looking forward to playing them for a while now. ## [When a Curation Practice Becomes Censorship by Another Name](http://www.freedomtoreadproject.org/when_a_curation_practice_becomes_censorship_by_another_name) _2026-06-11 · Arielle Haughee · Keeping Up and Checking In - Freedom to Read Project_ Libraries are living collections. Books come in. Books wear out. Books become outdated. Books stop circulating. New titles arrive, community interests shift, and available shelf space remains finite. Because of this reality, librarians have long relied on a professional practice known as weeding: the thoughtful removal of materials that no longer serve the needs of the collection. ## [The Video Game Library Newsletter - Vol. #052](https://thevideogamelibrary.substack.com/p/the-video-game-library-newsletter-894) _2026-06-07 · The Video Game Library’s Substack_ The Summer Game Fest SPECTACULAR! A book for EVERY game showcased 🤯 ## [Witchy games tier list.](https://ramblingreviews.substack.com/p/witchy-games) _2026-06-04 · lydocia · Rambling Reviews_ Occult, witchy and other creepycute games that match a dark but cosy atmosphere. ## [we are open for business!](https://ramblingreviews.substack.com/p/openforbusiness) _2026-06-03 · lydocia · Rambling Reviews_ shelves stocked, prices labelled, cash register ready... ## [The Video Game Library Newsletter - Vol. #051](https://thevideogamelibrary.substack.com/p/the-video-game-library-newsletter-d0d) _2026-05-31 · The Video Game Library’s Substack_ Dragon Quest turns 40 and nearly 50 new Video Game books flood the shelves this week! Plus an egg-citing book review! ## [The Video Game Library Newsletter - Vol. #050](https://thevideogamelibrary.substack.com/p/the-video-game-library-newsletter-ed1) _2026-05-25 · The Video Game Library’s Substack_ An Important Issue.... Please Read ## [Refer a Friend, Earn Rewards (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ZWX9bUe0wQNE) _2026-05-25 · **Sponsored**_ Earn rewards when friends get the Graphite Business Card through your referral. ## [Un'ode ai vecchi Total War](https://www.whysf.xyz/blog/ode-ai-vecchi-total-war/) _2026-03-29 · Whysofurious · Disassociating_ In estremo ritardo partecipo anche io alla sagra indieweb di livellosegreto , a tema videogiochi. Grazie a Dottorblaster per il tema! In tutta onestà, questo post è stato nelle mie bozze per quasi un anno, quindi ho una memoria abbastanza scarsa di cosa volevo effettivamente dire quando ho iniziato a pensarci. Detto ciò, visto il recente annuncio di Medieval Total War III, anche questo periodo… ## [Finally I can use OpenSCQ30](https://www.whysf.xyz/blog/finally-i-can-use-openscq30/) _2025-12-23 · Whysofurious · Disassociating_ With release 2.0.0, OpenSCQ30 added support for the Soundcore Libery 4 NC, which are the headphones I use. I can finally drop the proprietary Soundcore (Anker) app from my main GrapheneOS profile. This is quite important for me because while I strive to use only FOSS apps, I have to draw a line at health-related stuff. I have tinnitus, thus it is important for me that things like noise-cancel and… ## [2025-12-19 New layout for shelves](https://www.whysf.xyz/updates/new-layout-for-shelves/) _2025-12-19 · Whysofurious · Disassociating_ Revamped (“downvamped”?) the layout of the shelves. Now they are a bit more boring but definitely easier to maintain. Might rework them sooner or later. ## [Get papers quickly with Alfred and Annas Archive](https://www.whysf.xyz/blog/get-papers-quickly-with-alfred-and-annas-archive/) _2025-09-30 · Whysofurious · Disassociating_ Just a quick one here, if you want to use Anna’s Archive SciDB to “unlock” (\* wink \*) academic papers via a DOI, and you are on MacOS, and you use Alfred, you can use a Custom Web Search like this in the search url field: https://annas-archive.org/scidb/{query} I assigned it sco as a hotkey and now I can just do sc doi.org/10.othernumbers/othernumbers This works well if you copy only the doi.org… ## [Selfhosting my stuff - the background](https://www.whysf.xyz/blog/selfhosting/) _2025-09-21 · Whysofurious · Disassociating_ Note : since the moment I drafted this post, months have passed, so the “now” should be taken with the month of July in mind. Many things have changed, and I will write about it in the (hopefully next) future. It’s been a while now that I started fiddling into the selfhosting word. Around a couple of years ago I started to be interested into these kinds of thing, but it took me a while to figure… ## [2025-08-10 Added blogs buttons](https://www.whysf.xyz/updates/add-blogs-buttons/) _2025-08-10 · Whysofurious · Disassociating_ Added some cool websites’ badges to the homepage. Will add more in the future :) ## [Jailbreaking my Kindle ('cause fuck amazon)](https://www.whysf.xyz/blog/kindle-jailbreak/) _2025-05-25 · Whysofurious · Disassociating_ I am on a selfhosting rampage recently, on which I will talk little bit more about in the future.But in the meantime let’s just say that I wanted to do a relatively simple thing: installing a third party app on my kindle to read the books that I own without having to buy them (again, because I do buy stuff that I enjoy) on the amazon store (and having to be locked into DRM bullshit again). My… ## [2025-02-17 Added guestbook](https://www.whysf.xyz/updates/add-guestbook/) _2025-02-17 · Whysofurious · Disassociating_ Added a guestbook through atabook! ## [2025-01-05 Finalized shelves](https://www.whysf.xyz/updates/finalized-shelves/) _2025-01-05 · Whysofurious · Disassociating_ Shelves are live! 🎉 It took a while and they are definitely not perfect or complete, but I am happy with the results! ## [A lazy comparison of Miniflux android clients](https://www.whysf.xyz/blog/a-lazy-comparison-of-miniflux-android-clients/) _2024-12-30 · Whysofurious · Disassociating_ So I recently switched to GrapheneOS, and I am also using Miniflux for a while now as my RSS/Atom feed manager. On iOS I used to have Reeder, which is of course Apple-only, so I needed to find an Android client with being FOSS as the minimum requirement. I think I tried for a while all the clients (that I found) available on F-Droid, but in the end none of them had all the features I wanted. While… ## [2024-11-10 Join fanlisting, revamp homepage and new buttons](https://www.whysf.xyz/updates/join-fanlisting/) _2024-11-10 · Whysofurious · Disassociating_ Joined a series of directories, cliques and fanlisting. Also moved this section to the homepage. Two new buttons are also available! ## [2024-11-09 Joined more webrings](https://www.whysf.xyz/updates/joined-more-webrings/) _2024-11-09 · Whysofurious · Disassociating_ Joined Safonts and Citizens of Verdite webrings. Also changed the code behind the webring template. ## [2024-10-20 Use GlitchGoblin as fallback font](https://www.whysf.xyz/updates/use-glitchgoblin-as-fallback-font/) _2024-10-20 · Whysofurious · Disassociating_ Fix dates not using custom font by setting GlitchGoblin as fallback. ## [Trying GrapheneOS](https://www.whysf.xyz/blog/trying-grapheneos/) _2024-10-19 · Whysofurious · Disassociating_ For a while now (I think a year and half) I followed a process of removing Google from my life. I had it easy for most of the stuff because I was using an IPhone so many (blatantly) privacy-invasive things weren’t there to begin with, but still I removed my old google account, deleted data, and replaced everything that I could replace. Still, I saw in the past years Apple (unsurprisingly)… ## [2024-09-09 Changed font to DepartureMono](https://www.whysf.xyz/updates/changed-font/) _2024-09-09 · Whysofurious · Disassociating_ Body font changed to DepartureMono . ## [Baldur's Gate patches make me happy and angry at the same time](https://www.whysf.xyz/blog/bg3-patches-make-me-happy-and-angry-at-the-same-time/) _2024-09-05 · Whysofurious · Disassociating_ I read another announcement of Baldur’s Gate Patch 7, and while I like all the new addition and fixes, why is this a thing? Baldur’s Gate is not necessarily story-driven as you can also play multiplayer, but the story plays a HUGE part in the game, since you can technically replay it dozens of times and have different small outcomes thanks to the endless choices available to you. Then why adding…