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Luxatic: The Top 10 Most Expensive Books Ever Sold Used since hundreds of years ago, books are probably the most important step in man...

Anyone else remember this Bowie poster from your library as a kid? pic.twitter.com/HsY8srwrwv — Eric Smith (@ericsmithrocks) January 11, ...

London Book Fair: Publishing World Struggles To Adapt To New Lines -- The Guardian The partying goes on at Earl's Court, but new formats...

Storage: Internet tycoon Brewster Kahle has spent $3million building this repository in San Francisco where he hopes to archive as many book...

(Image: Sotheby's) From New Scientist: If you like this picture of snowy owls and have a spare £4 to £6 million floating around, you mig...

A man browses through books at the Cecil H. Green Library on the Stanford University Campus, Dec. 17, 2004 in Stanford, Calif. (Justin Sulli...

From New York Times: What is silence? I am profoundly deaf in my left ear (I have a cochlear implant). The ear is useless for hearing, thoug...

From New Scientist: When science was young, the experiments were simple and the breakthroughs came easily - or so it seems in hindsight. Thi...

The web is making self-publishing easier. Photograph: Toby Talbot/AP From The Guardian: There are now dozens of websites to help budding aut...

From The BBC: Analyses of classic authors' works provide a way to "linguistically fingerprint" them, researchers say. The rela...