Why Anybooks App Is Removed From Play Store
Tatsuya Deals
EBooks are a rage these days as there are too many people who are switching to eBooks as opposed to traditional books. Here, we are going to list 10 of the best free eBook apps which you can use to make the most out of your love for reading.
When we are talking of free eBook apps, there is no way we can miss out mentioning Kindle. It is by far one of the most popular book reading apps. You can signup & download it here. and read a lot of free books that span nearly all categories from romance to fiction, non-fiction, historical and more.
You can also purchase the ones you want to read. It is ideal for those who cannot afford the Kindle Fire tablet by Amazon and are still looking to get a taste of the same. Available in both iOS version and the Android version.
This is one of the best free applications for reading books. You can access the books by Barnes and Noble, which is without a doubt one of the leading book retailers. The user interface is very interactive and you can not only import epub and PDF, but this app also offers an integrated store where you can access magazines, newspapers and comics as well.
You can play with the size and color of the font. Not only this, if you are unable to comprehend the meaning of any word, you have an easy dictionary lookup feature as well. The best thing about Google play is the fact that you can easily download books for free and make a quick purchase too.
This is perhaps the most popular reading community. You can find a lot of free books on Goodreads. Though there are a lot of paid books as well, but this is an extremely popular app for those who want to get some of the best recommendations.
This app offers more than 50,000 free eBooks for you to access. The books are arranged in different categories which make it easier to access them based upon your preferences. This app is going to allow you customization options as you can play with the margins, spacing, text color, backgrounds hyphenation and more.
You also have a paperback like animation to give you the feel of reading a traditional book. You can also read in two column view as well. The top categories of books include fiction, romance, fantasy and adventure. Jane Austen and Agatha Christie are the popular authors.
Kobo comes with its own online store where you can gain access to innumerable books, both free and paid. One of the best highlight of this app has to be the wide range of file types which it supports namely epub, CBZ, CBR and even PDF. It allows your friends on social networking sites to like and comment upon your reading activity.
There is both a free and a premium version available. If you are not willing to spend money, the free version is enough to help you read your favorite eBooks. Aldiko is best for those who are looking for a rich interface for reading. You get a free public library which allows you access to a huge number of free books at no extra cost.
If you are an Apple user, this is most likely to be the default book reading app on your device. The designing of this app is very elegant which means that you will find it to be clutter free. You get the option of customizing the fonts and colors and you can also switch from day to night mode based upon your time of reading.
This app supports all major file formats including ePub, RTF, HTML, Doc, plain text, mobi, fb2 and more. You can use eternal true type and open type fonts and use the inbuilt browser for downloading different books of your choice.
You can also upload books by getting them on your external memory card as well. This app offers you controls over the way you want to read the book. You can swap the background color, the font size and toggle between horizontal and vertical display as well. There is the option for auto scrolling of texts too.
"There's not been a single book banned in the state of Florida," the Republican said in his May 24 presidential campaign launch on Twitter Spaces. "You can go buy or you can use whatever book you want."
"Parents have flagged books in schools that, for example, teach middle school kids how to use sex apps that provide graphic depictions of sex acts and sex toys for people as young as fifth grade," DeSantis said. "And so clearly that is not appropriate."
"Banning" is in the eye of the beholder, said Emily J.M. Knox, an information sciences professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. People who seek to ban books define bans narrowly as the total removal of books.
Some "people like to say it's not banning because you can get it in the public library/bookstore/Amazon or whatever," Knox said. "But it is censorship, because it's about control of access to knowledge. The whole point is to make sure that some people do not have unfettered access to that info."
Debates about book bans have existed for decades, prompting events such as Banned Book Week. But efforts to ban books have risen recently amid public conversations about racial justice and LGBTQ+ topics. Some observers say the pandemic gave parents a closer view of what their children were learning in virtual classrooms.
The state department shall publish and regularly update a list of materials that were removed or discontinued as a result of an objection and disseminate the list to school districts for consideration in their selection procedures.
A January state training document encouraged school districts to pay attention to book removals in other districts: "Check any books that have been removed or restricted due to a challenge in other districts," it said. "Those books should be carefully considered before purchasing."
Determining the exact number of books banned from Florida school libraries is tricky. PEN America, a group that opposes and tracks book bans, counts books temporarily removed pending investigation. In an April 20 report, it arrived at a figure of 357 bans from July to December 2022.
By contrast, DeSantis on March 8 issued a statement that said that 23 districts reported removing 175 books. Most of them were "identified as pornographic, violent, or inappropriate for their grade level," his press statement said.
Cassie Palelis, a state education department spokesperson, told PolitiFact that state law required school books to be pornography-free before the 2022 bill and that local school districts, not her department, determine which books schools remove from libraries.
We obtained lists of removed or restricted books from some counties including Escambia, in northwest Florida, which removed "And Tango Makes Three" by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson, a book for young children about a baby penguin raised by two males. The teacher who filed the challenge wrote that the book had an "LGBTQ agenda using penguins."
The Miami Herald reported that a review committee at Bob Graham Education Center, a K-8 school in Miami Lakes, restricted "The Hill We Climb," a poem by Amanda Gorman, and three other titles, to middle school students.
Shireen Campbell, an English professor at Davidson College in North Carolina who teaches a course that covers book controversies, said a "book ban" means a book has been effectively removed in an educational context.
DeSantis "is asserting that the state has not made a list of taboo materials, but in fact the curricular transparency bill strongly encourages people who review instructional materials to consider their library collections and scrub them of books that might be objectionable," Campbell said. "So, if a book is pulled from a school library and/or cannot be taught in a school, that book is in essence banned in that school."
During the 2021-2022 school year, more than 1,600 books were banned from school libraries. The bans affected 138 school districts in 32 states, according to a report from PEN America, an organization dedicated to protecting free expression in literature.
But what are the most commonly banned books in America, and why are they considered controversial? Here are the 50 most commonly banned books in America from the 2021-2022 school year, with data supplied by PEN America.
The children's book is based on the real-life story of two male chinstrap penguins, Roy and Silo, who formed a bond at the Central Park Zoo in New York City. After zookeepers saw the pair trying to hatch a rock as if it were an egg, they gave the penguin couple their own egg. Roy and Silo subsequently raised the chick, Tango, as their own.
PEN America states that "the banning of a single book title could mean anywhere from one to hundreds of copies are pulled from libraries or classrooms in a school district." The data doesn't consider duplicate bans per district in its unique title tally, but each separate ban is counted in the overall rankings.
As soon as Jazz Jennings could speak, she told her parents that she was a girl, despite having been assigned male at birth. She became a spokesperson for trans children and co-wrote a book entitled "I Am Jazz" about her experience. It was banned on five separate occasions during the past school year.
This suspense novel, published in 1978, is about teenagers kidnapping and murdering their strict teacher. These themes caused the book to go through five bans over the course of the previous school year.
Alice Sebold, known for her more famous best-seller "The Lovely Bones," saw her memoir "Lucky" pulled from school bookshelves six times in the 2021-2022 school year because of a graphic depiction of the rape she survived in college.
Outside of the content of the book itself, there was further controversy after Anthony Broadwater, the man who was convicted and imprisoned for Sebold's rape for 16 years, was exonerated. Sebold has publicly apologized for having mistakenly identified the wrong man as her attacker.
The fourth novel of author E. Lockhart's "Ruby Oliver" quartet is the most controversial, thanks to sexual content and slut-shaming, and was part of school book bans six times in the 2021-2022 school year.
It was the fourth most-banned book in the United States in 2020, and removed from classrooms and libraries in schools six separate times between 2021-2022. Anderson is seen here attending the National Book Awards in 2008.
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