At the end of every year, public libraries around the country assemble lists of the books most borrowed by readers. From Charleston, S.C. to Cincinnati, Ohio, from New Orleans, La. to Minnetonka ...

Libby, the app libraries use to provide e-books, audiobooks and magazines, has not yet released its data from 2024. A number of 2024 books were also 2023 books.

[This is an excerpt from my 1995 Yale Law Journal article "Cheap Speech and What It Will Do," written for a symposium called "Emerging Media Technology and the First Amendment.)Thirty years later ...