Five Things: September 10, 2026

Check out As in guillotine... for more. NOTE: We’re still digging out from our big move last month, so trying to maintain a consistent routine has been impossible. I’ve started a KISS bullet journal, which has helped a lot, and I somehow managed to pull together this newsletter on schedule in a cozy corner of our bedroom because my new home office is at least a month from being ready. What I’ll be doing in that office is still a mystery, but now that the summer is over, my lowkey job search is finally shifting into high gear; if you see something, say something! _ONE Publishing Industry ‘Study’ Says Digital Library Lending Is Cannibalizing Retail Sales—Librarians Say It Reveals Something Else | Andrew Albanese Secretariat is a legal consulting firm. They’re not qualified to do an ‘independent’ analysis of the digital book marketplace. And if this isn’t an independent analysis, but part of a legal strategy to stop library ebook legislation, then people of good faith who are interested…