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The Banned Wagon is Giving Away Banned Books for Free (bookriot.com)

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[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yep, the ban is just a school not electing to include the book in their library. Pretty much all of the books are available in the public library that you can walk to from the school, unless they are relatively obscure or new and haven't been purchased by the public library yet.