Responses to an essay by Roger Rosenblatt about keeping and tossing old books. Also: A.I. and human identity; new heights for ...

Give your old books a new lease on life. Transform your old books into new and exciting items. From decorative pieces to functional accessories. Perfect for crafters and book lovers alike, these ideas ...

Every bibliophile knows it, loves it, craves it — the smell of a well-read book. It's so popular that you can even find old book-scented candles, but what creates that signature smell? The answer is a ...

The library announced on Facebook that their long-lost book had been returned to their collection after a Boston resident found it and gave it to the Cambridge Public Library. The book was "The Early ...

As a graduate student in Laramie, Wyo., in the 1990s, Sarah Mentock spent many weekends hunting for bargains at neighborhood yard sales. On one of those weekends, she spotted “The Lord of the Isles,” ...

Student workers and full-time faculty are working to repair, rebind and renew old books in the BYU conservation laboratory. Repairs can be made by sewing new bindings on old pages, patching up pages ...

Weeding, or culling old, damaged or outdated books, is standard practice in libraries. But in some cases it is being used to remove books because of the viewpoint they express. By Elizabeth A. Harris ...

In our modern society, we rarely consider books to be dangerous items. However, certain books contain elements so hazardous that they require scrutiny before being placed on the shelves of public ...

Fly fishing is more than just a hobby that begins and ends at the water's edge. —it's a unique culture with its own traditions, community, and language. I'll stop short of saying fly fishing defines ...

In the 1980s, nothing got between Brooke Shields and her Calvins. These days, it seems as if nothing gets between real life and the comments section. "I was doing an Instagram Live the other day and ...

The smell of an old book tends to surface before its title is read. It escapes as a cover is eased open or a stiff page lifted, settling briefly in the air between hand and paper. In libraries and ...

In April, the National Library of France removed four 19th century books, all published in Great Britain, from its shelves because the covers were likely laced with arsenic. The books have been placed ...