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Bookmobile in Staten Island, New York, undated.

Vintage Photos of Traveling Libraries

When bookmobiles brought literature to your doorstep.

Anika Burgess June 9, 2017

Shelves at the Brautigan Library

Vancouver, Washington

The Brautigan Library

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

New York, New York

Mysterious Bookshop

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Popular in the early 20th century as souvenir books, these tiny books of travel photos (Maine, in this case) had tags attached so they could be dropped in the mail.

Beautiful Miniature Books That Are Worth Sacrificing Your Eyesight For

Good things come in (very) small packages.

Anika Burgess May 26, 2017

Birmingham, Alabama

Museum of Fond Memories at Reed Books

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

How (and Why) a Photographer Encased His Latest Book in Concrete

The insides match the outsides.

Anika Burgess May 12, 2017

A tree that will become an anthology in 100 years

Forest of the Future Library

One thousand trees were planted in Norway to be used to print books a century from now.

Illustrations from John of Arderne's medical treatise <em>Mirror of Phlebotomy & Practice of Surgery</em>.

The Strange and Grotesque Doodles in the Margins of Medieval Books

When the edges take center stage.

Anika Burgess May 9, 2017

The interiors of the bookstore.

Lisbon, Portugal

Livraria Bertrand

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

You never know what you'll find in an old book.

Found: Pages From One of the First Books Ever Printed in England

They were meant to tell priests how to plan feasts.

Eric Grundhauser May 8, 2017

The digitizing setup.

How to Digitize a 357-Year-Old Atlas That's Nearly 6 Feet Tall

It's not going to fit in a scanner.

Kelsey Kennedy May 8, 2017

Prague, Czechia

‘Idiom’

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Even books need a bath sometimes.

The Boston Public Library Has a 'Car Wash' for Books

And it's very satisfying to watch in action.

Eric Grundhauser April 26, 2017

San Nicolas Island

Naval Air Station Point Mugu, California

San Nicolas Island

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

A detail from an early 19th-century cartoon by Thomas Rowlandson.

Jest Books Were the 16th-Century Version of Insult Comedy

Think Don Rickles crossed with Shakespeare.

Meaghan Clark April 20, 2017

Pages from the manuscripts.

Found: Medieval Manuscripts Stolen From Italy, Hiding in the Boston Public Library

The library obtained them legitimately, but they were never meant to be in America.

Sarah Laskow April 20, 2017

Talmud Business Hotel

Taichung City, Taiwan

Talmud Business Hotel

A hotel in Taiwan based on the better business practices that can be gleaned from Jewish law.

Extracting the smell of a 18th century bible in the Spangled Bedroom at Knole House.

The Odor 'Wheel' Decoding the Smell of Old Books

We finally have a tool to help describe it.

Eric Grundhauser April 6, 2017