Observed arrival · 2026-10-31
Banned Books: The Burned Library
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An interactive map and book explorer present records of book bans across countries, with an AI guide for questions and recommendations.
- For
- Readers researching book bans and censorship
- Worth noticing
- It counts distinct books and says English-language reporting undercounts authoritarian bans.
Field notes
The map can be filtered by governments or schools, and historical bans from the USSR, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany are placed on successor states with a historical label. The page names Banned Books Open Censorship Core and Zenodo as data sources and states a CC-BY-4.0 license. Its Keeper is identified as AI, with an explicit warning that answers can be wrong.
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