- Does Spelling Matter? [The New York Times]
- Country Music Legend Dolly Parton's New Role: 'Book Lady' [PBS NewsHour]
- US Takes Apple to Trial Over E-Books Price-Fixing [CNBC]
- Bibliocide [Aeon Magazine]
- Google Glass: No, You Can’t Read A Book On It [Publishers Weekly]
- Lisa Bu: How books can open your mind [TED]
- Book Domino Chain World Record [Seattle Public Library]
- National Archives' treasures targeted by thieves [60 Minutes]
- How Timbuktu's manuscripts were smuggled to safety [BBC News]
- New vending machine aims to democratize 3D printing [CNET News]
- Security-State Creep: The Real NSA Scandal Is What's Legal [The Atlantic]
- Rise of 'Altmetrics' Revives Questions About How to Measure Impact of Research [The Chronicle of Higher Education]
- Obama Stops Championing Treaty That Gives the Blind Better Access to E-Books [Wired]
- Justices rule human genes cannot be patented [USA Today]
- Trust Me, Assigning Summer Reading Is Totally Pointless [The Atlantic Wire]
- Philip Pullman: 'Authors must be paid fairly for ebook library loans' [The Guardian]
- 11 Weird Books That Really Exist [Mental Floss]
- Why Book Publishers Are Still Dragging Their Heels on Selling You E-Books [Wired]
- 'Libraries in Exile' fights to save priceless manuscripts in Mali [The Christian Science Monitor]
- New DRM Will Change the Words in Your E-Book [Wired]
- Urbana library 'misstep' upsets patrons [The News-Gazette]
- India to end state-run telegram service. Stop. [The Christian Science Monitor]
- Bedtime With Puritans and Wild Things [The New York Times]
- Calling It 'Metadata' Doesn't Make Surveillance Less Intrusive [KERA News]
- By the Time You Read This, Some People May Have an Easier Time Reading [Library Journal]
- DuckDuckGo Benefits From Internet Searchers Wanting Privacy [Morning Edition]
- For University Presses, a Time of Fixing Bridges, and Building New Ones [The Chronicle of Higher Education]
- Library of Congress Transitions to Free, Online-Only Cataloging Publications [Library of Congress]
- Learning To Learn [Library Journal]
- Is It More Than “Old Book Smell”? [ILAB Library]
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