An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: After the pandemic closed many libraries’ physical branches this spring, checkouts of ebooks are up 52 percent from the same period last year, according to OverDrive, which partners with 50,000 libraries worldwide. Hoopla, another service that connects libraries to publishers, says 439 library systems in the US and Canada have joined since March,…
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Book excerpt: ‘The Organ Thieves’ (Simon and Schuster, 2020)
White surgeons racing to perform a pioneering transplant in 1968 took a Black patient’s heart — but didn’t tell his family. Source: https://www.livescience.com/the-organ-thieves-book-excerpt.html