The literary world has changed powerfully: even the last 10 years have brought significant innovations that allow...
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We are all looking for practices to get richer at some point in life or another. While...
Exploring Graeco-Roman reading culture through one of its best-preserved and most lavishly-illustrated artefacts. This article, Reading Like...
His uncle’s home was a place where Hill was provided with a good meal and was educated,...
The largest libraries in the world that store 15 million or more items. Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A....
Issues of urgent interest for a society living in an era of unprecedented change to the tools...
The rise, fall, and rediscovery of cuneiform. By Shelby BrownClassical archaeologist and classicistEducation Specialist for Academic and Adult...
There are so many health benefits associated with reading books, and for your information, not just any...
He continued to expand the Harleian Library with thousands of manuscripts. One of the many gems of...
These deluxe bindings are known as treasure bindings, because of their lavish and high-quality materials and craftsmanship....
A film about the world of New York antiquarian book dealers. By Ella TaylorFilm and Book Critic...
The Bibliophile’s vision of the bookless future is in some ways prescient. This article, Octave Uzanne’s “The...
Locke’s method built on a long tradition of commonplace note taking, most famously John Milton’s from the...
Writing methods and tools are evolved from wood and clay to pen and paper, and then from...
In the 19th century, more people were reading more publications than ever before. This explains how technological,...
Exploring the way Victorians bought, borrowed and read their books, and the impact of the popular literature...
The early years of printing in Western Europe was a time of astonishing productivity. Originally published by...
Throughout his life, Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) collected books across a vast spectrum of topics and languages. Introduction...
The discovery of lapis lazuli pigment preserved in the dental calculus of a religious woman in Germany...
The codex didn’t catch on until surprisingly late in the ancient world. By Benjamin HarnettClassics Scholar A...
Did you know that a man named “John Gooseflesh” changed the world? Did you know that a...
In the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, reading was a privileged skill available to the upper-class elite. This...