💬📚 “Simon stays perfectly still, like he’s hiding from a Tyrannosaurus rex and not the existence of social norms.” Cat Sebastian, Star Shipped

The sitting president of the United States has zeroed out the budget for the Institute of Museum and Library Services in his next budget, which would effectively eliminate the institute. EveryLibrary has a petition you can sign to let your legislators know you don’t want them to pass that budget.

🎮🎲 I tried the Tiny Bookshop demo a while back. The part where I didn’t have the books people wanted felt too much like being at work, and I found myself frustrated by the limited genres. Likewise, I looked at the demo copy of A Place for All My Books at Atomic Empire and determined that book organization sims, whether physical or digital, are Not for Kimberly.