We live in perilous times, and increasingly depend on digital technology to preserve our access to knowledge, as our human read/write memories inevitably fade. Yet the digital storage technologies on ...

There is something both comforting and alarming about the piles of books I have in my home. I love to have the next book and the next book after that ready to crack open or be moved to another pile if ...

Greg Newby was eight years old when he wrote a letter to Santa Claus and finished it with a simple request: “Make sure other people get things too.” It was that spirit of generosity that drove Mr.

Michael S. Hart, the founder of Project Gutenberg passed away on 6 September. Hart, born in 1947, started Project Gutenberg in 1971 with the digitisation of the US Declaration of Independence, which ...