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Annie the Book

@anniethebook.bsky.social

Academic librarian, velocireader, cat parent, increasingly pagan.

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Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2d ago

It requires expertise to be able to say, “I do not know the answer to that question, and that is becauae thus far scholarly consensus is that we do not have the knowledge needed at this time to answer that question.” Sometimes “I don’t know” is a far more rigorous answer than people might think.

Annie the Book@anniethebook.bsky.social · 3d ago

Last week on the bookish internet: medieval books, authors against AI, why boys really don't read as much as girls, an ancient Roman library, annoying AI-generated books for grandkids, and lots of censorship news. www.abookishtype.com/2026/08/02/l... 💙📚

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Anne Lawrence-Mathers takes a look at the medieval quest to use the Ars notoria to gain all knowledge. (Public Domain Review) Emma Loffhagan reveals how an author lost a huge book deal for using AI…

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kelly jensen@heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 4d ago

This thread is updated. "What can I do to let people know what's happening with book censorship?" "How can I change the tide of book censorship?" "What's happening with book censorship." I've got over 5 years of posts on this. I've threaded here a selection of crucial ones answering those ?s.

kelly jensen@heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 2y ago

A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education. This is updated regularly!

Image of the tops of books in a herringbone pattern. They are in a rainbow gradient. The center of the image has a green textbox with the words "Resources for fighting book censorship, library challenges, and more."
jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d ago

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · last wk.

Basquiat seyde that "art ys how we decorate space, and musique ys how we decorate tyme." It doth followe that poetrye ys how we decorate thoughte and sense, and narratyve ys how we decorate memorye. And all are middel fingeres agaynste death. Make art, or else.

Annie the Book@anniethebook.bsky.social · last wk.

I literally posted about being a little happy to see typos in my students work, because it was a sign that they hadn't used AI. On the same day, I also hollered (for hyperbolic effect) at a coworker that he could pry my em dashes & parentheticals out of my cold, dead hands in an all-librarians mtg.

Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · last wk.

Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · last wk.

*whispers* you know we can do this cultural debate about art thing all the time, right? Websites and news organizations used to have culture critics on staff whose entire job was writing about books, movies, and TV. People read them and then discussed them. We have the technology to do this again.

Annie the Book@anniethebook.bsky.social · last wk.

Typos used to irk me*. But I'm starting to find them reassuring when I grade student writing, since it means they might not have used AI. I also had the thought that we should bring back the anarchic spelling of the 1600s. English spelling doesn't make sense anyway. Take that, AI!

Brendan Keogh@brkeogh.bsky.social · last wk.

Surely the solution here is just *don't use AI tools* for your writing and research and continue to do your writing and research in ALL the ways you were doing it before you started using AI instead of doing the work??

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Annie the Book@anniethebook.bsky.social · last wk.

I once had a 90 minute discussion with a cataloger coworker about hyphen placement. At the end, he ended up going with whatever he'd decided before he asked what I thought. I was too junior and too young to say," [Redacted], I don't care." #LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems

Grandiloquent Word of the Day@grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · last wk.

Quiddler [KWID-lur] (n.) - One who wastes time or effort upon trifling matters; a dawdler or idler. Use: “With the nonchalance of a man unencumbered by responsibility, the office quiddler circulated among his colleagues, dispensing hot-goss in place of the assistance they had requested.”

A “Grandiloquent Word of the Day” meme for the word “Quiddler”, defined as: “One who wastes time or effort upon trifling matters; a dawdler or idler.” Beneath it reads: “With the nonchalance of a man unencumbered by responsibility, the office quiddler circulated among his colleagues, dispensing hot-goss in place of the assistance they had requested.” At right, a black-and-white period cartoon shows several men gathered idly around a large stove, smoking, chatting, and lounging instead of working.
Annie the Book@anniethebook.bsky.social · last wk.

Last week on the bookish internet: how many books is too many and why do people care, Anthropic ordered to pay big bucks, thoughts about reading and writing, what's going on with book cover design, and more. www.abookishtype.com/2026/07/26/l... 📚💙

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Madelyn Johnson examines how and why book cover design has changed in the last couple of decades. Regrettably, this essay does not address why so many romance novels have been published or republis…

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