- An anonymous librarian reminds us that libraries are for everyone, but especially the people with nowhere else to go. (The Guardian)
- Pair with: Hannah Ellis-Petersen’s report on the dire library situation in Swindon, England. (The Guardian)
- I know the bookish feels Sharanya Sharma lists here and completely agree that we need words to describe them. (Book Riot)
- Oh, hey, they’re making a show based on Deborah Harkness’ Discovery of Witches. (io9)
- Peter Ross Range reports on how scholarship may have made Mein Kampf safe to read. (The Daily Beast)
- English spelling rarely makes sense. Stan Carey writes about the many efforts to bring sanity to English orthography…and explains how they mostly failed. (History Today)
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