In his 1931 essay “Unpacking My Library,” the German-Jewish author Walter Benjamin wove a spiritual aura around his books as he prepared to shelve them in a new home. He ruminated about “the spring ...

I have spent a considerable portion of my life handling books. I’ve read them, as a young child, an older student, and a professor of English; I’ve bound them, as a worker in a library to help pay my ...

For the love of books (and all the other wonderful things you can find at the library), Spokane Public Library invites you to get online and share your story of how local libraries have impacted your ...

I grew up reading—at the school library, on the bookmobile, at the comic book store, at home next to the heater under the piano. As a girl, I found pieces of myself in the characters of Ramona, Anne ...

I grew up in libraries, or at least it feels that way. My family lived in the suburbs of Cleveland, about a mile from the brick-faced Bertram Woods Branch of the Shaker Heights Public Library system.

Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts. He writes CNET's popular Cheapskate blog and co-hosts Protocol 1: A Travelers Podcast (about the TV show ...

I don’t possess one of those personal libraries consisting of 20,000 volumes that writers of past generations could boast of by their early thirties. I live in a 68 square-metre apartment and that ...

You can get library books on a Kindle device through Amazon's partnership with OverDrive, as long as you have a library membership with a participating institution ...

All your books in one place, DRM free. I love e-books. I love them so much that I’m considering buying a double-sided, sheet-feed scanner, chopping the spines of all my dead-treeware books and having ...