“The Casual Vacancy” Tops Goodreads’ List of Popular Abandoned Books
BoingBoing brings our attention to one of the hidden features of Goodreads. Lots of people like to use GR's "shelves" feature to track the books they...Continue reading
Category: Book Culture
The Lost Art of Paste-Up (video)
Back before we used computers to lay out the text of a book, magazine, or newspaper, publishers used various methods to manually lay out text before...Continue reading
Millennial Reading Habits Have Changed the Definition of a Classic , and Other Lazy Writing
Millennial-bashing is popular among the media, and this is a problem not just because it's lazy writing but also because sometimes it distracts from what is...Continue reading
“Little House on the Prairie” Author’s Name Removed from Book Award
Following several years of quiet debate, a division of the American Library Association has announced that it will be changing the name of its children book...Continue reading
“New” J R R Tolkien Novel, “The Fall of Gondolin”, Is Coming Later This Year
Terry Pratchett may have avoided ghouls robbing his literary estate after his death, but other authors were nearly as lucky. Some authors (for example, Harper Lee) were...Continue reading
Why Do Publishers Still Issue Hardbacks, Given That They’re Not That Popular Anymore?
In its ongoing efforts to beat the "print books good, ebooks bad" drum, on Sunday the Guardian asked Philip Jones of The Bookseller why he thought...Continue reading
Customers Won’t Pay as Much for Digital Goods, Redux
Back before Christmas the Harvard Business Review published an article on recent research that showed that people valued physical objects for the act of possession more...Continue reading
What’s This Fantasy Doing in My Science Fiction epic?
There is a hard and fast rule that science fiction has science and that fantasy has magic, and thus the two genres will never be one....Continue reading
The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered
Editor's Note: The following poem was written by Clive James. I haven't been able to reach the author and secure permission for posting it here, so...Continue reading
Anti-SF Bias Leads to Poorer Reading Comprehension, Study Finds
Do you know how some look down on science fiction and other genre fiction as being less serious or literary? It turns out that they might...Continue reading
Who or What Are You Reading Right Now?
Every so often I have posted an open question asking what people are reading on, but I don't think I have ever asked about the content you...Continue reading
You’ll Need to Burn This Experimental Edition of Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” in Order to Read It
Someone has once again missed the point of Ray Bradbury's seminal work. Open Culture reports that a Dutch art college has created a new edition of Fahrenheit...Continue reading
How to Rescue a Water-Damaged Book: A Short, Handy Primer (video)
We all know how to use the rice trick to recover a waterlogged gadget (hint: oatmeal works better), but have you ever had to revive a...Continue reading
What Are You Reading On?
This Thursday morning finds me sitting here, waiting for my Kindle to install the latest firmware update. I'm looking forward to the new options for sizes...Continue reading
People Are Weird About Books, and Attempts to “Improve” or “Fix” Books in a Web Browser Prove it
The first thing thing you should know about reading books in a web browser is that far more developers than users are excited about the idea of...Continue reading