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Meet-cute at Mansfield Park: can modern covers turn young readers on to Jane Austen?

New editions of her novels are aimed squarely at the BookTok demographic – but will this make these classics appeal to fans of ‘spicy’ romance?

The Guardian - UK

Meta Quest Pro 2 could be back from the dead (yet again), and Quest 4 is reportedly in the works

Mark Gurman teases two meta Quest headsets are in the works: the Meta Quest Pro 2 and Meta Quest 4.

TechRadar

What will the future of Meta Quest headsets look like?

Meta Connect 2024 will give us a glimpse of the road ahead for Quest headsets and Meta's smart glasses ambitions, but what does the future of the Meta Quest really look like?

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Meta may be plotting a new budget mixed-reality headset with 'tethered puck' according to reports

To wire, or not to wire, that is the Quest(ion).

PC Gamer

Meta's canceled Quest Pro 2 could pave the way for a major VR headset redesign in 2027 – and I'm all for it

Meta may have reportedly canceled one Quest Pro 2, but a different version could still be coming in 2027.

TechRadar

Rumored Meta Quest headset sounds like the Vision Pro that Apple wasn't ready to make

Meta will reportedly compact the technology of its Quest headsets and expand on its smart glasses success with a new headset in 2027.

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Meta is developing sunglasses-like, mixed-reality headset codenamed Puffin - reports say

The Puffin pitch is an alternative to the Apple Vision Pro — and not just because there’s a battery part with which you have to contend

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Greg James apologises for suggestion a glass eye would make Roald Dahl Twit disgusting

Promotional video for a Twits spin-off book by broadcaster and his colleague Chris Smith is criticised by charity for the blind

The Guardian - UK

Man Donates Late Wife’s 2,000+ Puffin Book Collection To Children’s Museum

Paul High gifts extensive Puffin story book collection to The Story Museum in Oxford.

Zenger

Phil Baines: remembering the work and teachings of a master typographer

Professor Phil Baines (1958 – 2024) was an inspirational teacher and an accomplished designer with an endlessly inquisitive eye

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‘It’s an ongoing challenge’: Will the culture wars come for Britain’s books?

Books that discuss race, racism and sexuality are being banned or censored across America, igniting further conflict across the political spectrum. It’s happening in the UK, too, if – so far, at least – to a lesser extent. But should we be worried, asks Francesca Specter

The Independent UK

New Stephen Hawking children’s book to be published next year

You and the Universe, adapted from his posthumous 2020 Earth Day message, will bring the late physicist’s ‘extraordinary work to life for readers of all ages’

The Guardian - UK

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

Dreams of Bollywood; awkward questions about the British Empire; a haunted school trip; and a riotous YA horror-comedy

The Guardian - UK

Tim Minchin: ‘Politics affects my mental health … I feel gaslit’

He’s the anarchic comedian behind the musicals Matilda and Groundhog Day. He talks about dashed Hollywood hopes, the dangers of modernising Roald Dahl and feeling out of step with his progressive fanbase

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Tim Minchin says editing Roald Dahl’s books ‘a slippery slope’

Comedian behind Matilda musical says texts would need to be repeatedly updated to keep up with modern sensibilities

The Independent UK

Anthony Horowitz says Roald Dahl publishers ‘shot themselves in the foot’ over censorship row

Alex Rider author waded into the debate surrounding sensitivity readers and censorship

The Guardian - UK

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

A bullying beetle; an Irish myth; the search for a magical beast; and a gripping coming-of-age story set in Ghana

Evening Standard

What do sensitivity readers actually do? We meet them

To some, they are the foot soldiers of wokeness, tinkering with the words of literary legends like Roald Dahl. Laura Antonia Jordan meets today’s sensitivity readers to hear what they actually do

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Cynthia M. Allen: Leave Roald Dahl alone! Classics for kids don’t need to match our delicate sensibilities

There has been a debate raging within my household for months over when my oldest children (ages 6 and 7) will be permitted to watch “The Witches,” the 2020 film based on Roald Dahl’s fantasy children’s novel of the same title.

Liverpool Echo

Merseyside writers divided on reworking of Roald Dahl's famous books

One Wirral author said the changes were "inevitable" despite reading Roald Dahl's work growing up

The New Daily

First Roald Dahl, now Ian Fleming’s James Bond books are changed by publishers

Ian Fleming's James Bond novel series is being adjusted for political correctness ahead of its 70th anniversary re-release.

The Independent UK

‘Sweet tang of rape’: Offensive language that has – and hasn’t – been cut from Ian Fleming’s James Bond books

An overview of what’s made the cut in the sensitivity reader-approved editions

Tribune News Service

Editorial: The absurd and asinine cleansing of Roald Dahl’s work

Like the rest of the sane universe, we couldn’t believe the gall of Puffin U.K. when word came out that the publishing house and the Roald Dahl Story Co., the entity that manages his work, had conspired to make hundreds of changes to the writers’ iconic books.

The Guardian - UK

‘Updating’ Roald Dahl? It’s the same old story…

Rewriting the children’s author is about profit not ‘wokeness’ – part of the endless recycling and exploitation of old ideas

The Independent UK

Ricky Gervais shares expletive-ridden thoughts on Roald Dahl censorship debate

Comedian has now weighed in on furore over children’s books being edited

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