![]() The off-limits area of libraries also contains books that have been removed due to staff or customer complaints - such as the autobiography of previously-incarcerated Tommy Robinson, the founder of the far-right English Defence League. The documents say that where popular titles contain 'increasingly outdated' language, libraries purchase new, edited versions. ![]() It was explained that Library Unlimited - which runs the council's library service - regularly audits books, replacing them with altered versions. The changes were revealed in Devon County Council documents. The original versions are catalogued online and if a reader chooses to access one, a warning system will remind them of the language used within the older editions. If a reader requests an original version of titles like The Famous Five, they will be shown a verbal trigger warning, according to The Telegraph. It comes as recently edited works are displayed publicly across Devon's libraries, but tales which have not yet been amended are not so easy to access. 'Who knew unexpurgated Noddy could be so subversive?' Toby Young, general secretary of the Free Speech Union, also said: 'Enid Blyton is the latest children's author whose work has been 'modernised' by tin-eared sensitivity readers. ![]() 'We acquired some hardbacks too which I still have.' One said: 'Enid Blyton books are proudly displayed on my bottom shelf, you can’t rewrite or relegate history, it is written.'Ī second added: 'Wandsworth Libraries withdrew Enid Blyton before 1969, when I started reading the Famous Five, so I had to buy my own. TreasureChest Books, a shop in Felixstowe, Suffolk, added: 'So is Enid Blyton going the same way as Roald Dahl? (Not for the first time) Original, unaltered texts £1 each in the Felixstowe shop.'īlyton fans have followed suit, sharing photographs of books stacked on shelves at their homes. 'Most are the originals from a time before ‘sensitivity readers’ told us what we could and couldn’t read.' Belfast Books said: 'Take yourself back to your schooldays with an Enid Blyton paperback.
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