Auction house Bonhams’ book specialist Catherine Williamson walks PEOPLE through the diverse and fascinating collection that belonged to the late Supreme Court justice You can tell a lot about a ...

Your town or city probably has a library and your ebook reader gives you instant access to millions of books. Why would anyone want a personal library in this day and age? Book lovers will scoff at ...

Considering that I’ve hastily thrown most of the scanned books and ebooks into a single folder, calling my library a ...

My father loved books more than anything else in the world. He owned about 11,000 of them at the time of his death, in March of 2021, at 83 years old. There were books in his living room and bedroom, ...

Forget sizing people up by their clothes, cars, or careers. You want to know someone? Look at their books. What people choose to fill their minds and souls with tells you all you need to know: what ...

When I was a kid, I was interested in a number of professions that are now either outdated, or have changed completely. One of those dreams involved checking out books and things to patrons, and it ...

You can check out the first known photographs of bacteria, an article on a ‘hateful Colorado grasshopper,’ and more from the naturalist's vast collection. By Laura Baisas Published Feb 12, 2024 1:00 ...

Near a street corner in Portland’s Old Town neighborhood, street librarian Diana Rempe has set up a cargo bike with a shelf display and a massive wooden box emblazoned with STREET BOOKS. It’s packed ...

In the Trustees’ Room of the Boston Athenaeum, around 230 books once belonging to President George Washington rest in a glass and wooden bookcase. Among the volumes: Masonic sermons, agricultural ...

For Miami Art Week, Devlin has created an open-air installation for Faena Art that invites the public to turn her personal library into a communal one. Es Devlin’s “Library of Us,” on the beach in ...