On a scale of one to ten, how much do you love books?

Ten. That's Skip Die, an executive at Penguin Random House, one of the largest book publishing companies in the world.

It's hard to put a number on it for me. Books have been so... They're such a part of my world and my life, my evolution. So it's, so it is a 10.

Skip's job is to sell and market Penguin Random House's books to teachers and

librarians. But these days, the company says thousands of its books aren't allowed in schools anymore.

Across the country, book banning in libraries in schools is gaining momentum.

65 titles the district is reviewing for what it calls sexualized content.

School districts have banned books in 37 states.

Last May, Skip was asked to give an update on book bands at a Penguin Random House board meeting.

Up until then, the company had maintained a relatively low profile, and the board was expecting

a routine discussion.

But instead, Skips update turned into an impassioned speech.

I said, this is now hampering employees who we have in over 40 states in different ways. It's impacting how they do their jobs. It's impacting our authors,

how they live their lives. And that's how I started the speech, I guess.

It came to be a speech from the heart.

Skips said the company needed to do more,

that it needed to get out there and lobby lawmakers

against the bands.

I was fired up.

I think people would have said that I was fired up,

and I think they saw the concern.

And it was a concern they all had.

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