New App Gives Free Access to Banned Books Depending On Area

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) launched a caller programme earlier this period called the Banned Book Club. The programme gives users entree to books that person been banned successful their section libraries by utilizing “GPS-based geo-targeting.” To usage the service, readers tin spell to TheBannedBookClub.info and stock their determination to presumption the banned books successful their area. The books tin past beryllium downloaded for escaped with the Palace e-reader app.

Executive manager of the DPLA John S. Bracken said, “At DPLA, our ngo is to guarantee entree to cognition for each and we judge successful the powerfulness of exertion to further that access.” He continued, “Today publication bans are 1 of the top threats to our freedom. We person created the Banned Book Club to leverage the dual powers of libraries and integer exertion to guarantee that each American tin entree the books they privation to read.”

A fewer days ago, the DPLA’s caller programme got a shout-out successful the signifier of a tweet from erstwhile President Barack Obama.