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When the president unexpectedly fired the librarian of Congress, a prominent legislator denounced the “open despotism which now rules at Washington.” The year was 1829, and as Andrew Jackson installed ...

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The New York Public Library is giving away free books starting Thursday from its list of the best books of 2025, including at a branch on Staten Island. Every year, librarians and staff at The New ...

Customers waited in a line that stretched for more than a block on the opening day of the fall Friends of the Library book sale on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. “It’s quite overwhelming whenever you think ...

Anthropic agreed to a proposed $1.5B settlement over pirated books used to train Claude. If approved, eligible titles would receive about $3,000 each. Anthropic has agreed to a proposed $1.5B ...

Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class action lawsuit after it downloaded a massive trove of pirated books to train its large language models. The settlement amounts to about ...

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A library book that was checked out in July 1943 was finally returned to the San Antonio Public Library, nearly 82 years late. The book, "Your Child, His Family, and Friends" by Frances Bruce Strain, ...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A library book has been returned nearly 82 years after it was borrowed from the San Antonio Public Library. It came with a letter noting that “Grandma won’t be able to pay for it ...

If you’ve ever bought an e-book from Amazon, you already know you don’t really own it. Sure, it’s in your Kindle library and you can read it in the app. But try moving it to another device or ...

The Pentagon has ordered military leaders to remove and review all library books that relate to diversity, anti-racism or gender issues within the next two weeks, according to a new memo issued Friday ...