This week on the bookish internet

• David Streitfeld reports on the price wars on Amazon’s bookstore and what’s happening to sellers. (New York Times)
• Gina Nicoll discusses efforts to get police out of public libraries. (Book Riot)
• Jane C. Hu explains why Duolingo has such weird sentences for us. (Slate)
• Abaki Beck explores Indigenous’ writers use of traditional stories and characters in their horror novels. (Bitch Media)
• Lisa O’Carroll reports on efforts to restore a psalter found in an Irish bog, which you should read just to see what happens to a book when you leave it in a bog for a few centuries. (The Guardian)
• Jeffrey Wasserstrom shares his thoughts on using fiction and non-fiction in his history classes. (Perspectives on History)
• Ena Alvarado explores the origins of the picaresque, a genre I adore and wish there were more examples of. (Daily JSTOR)
• Nomin Ujiyediin reports on student efforts to keep books on shelves in their Kansas School District. (NPR)
  • More censorship news on Book Riot