You might have missed it, but a passage in author Christopher Hitchens’s 2010 memoir, Hitch-22, triggered a happy buzz among library bloggers at the time, and it can still judder the heart of library ...

Humans don't always treat books with the respect they deserve. Some of us are spine-benders, while others are page-folders. But, this one is something we've not seen before. A library in Ayer, ...

No one knew what to make of the strange-looking bike on the corner of 24th and Bartlett streets. It was parked outside of the San Francisco Public Library Mission Branch on a windy Saturday afternoon.

Before even descending the staircase to the lobby of Z Below in San Francisco for Word for Word's latest production, a verbatim staging of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami's children's story "The ...

Amazon has issued the first major firmware update for the Kindle Voyage, new $79 Kindle Basic Touch and the Paperwhite 2 today. A number of notable features are now available, such as the ability to ...

It’s next to impossible to find parking at The National Library of Israel. Located inside the gated Givat Ram campus of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, it’s one of a collection of seventies-style, boxy ...

Amazon has announced a new update for its Kindle e-readers that includes a number of useful features such as Word Wise and Family Library. The free, over-the-air update applies to the newly announced ...

This article is part of Prison Banned Books Week, a campaign that aims to raise awareness of prison censorship. Every morning, Anthony Arriaga, 47, serving his 21 st year for a murder conviction, is ...