Content tagged with “books” under “The Interesting List”

“ A man opened a bookstore in a downtown building and set off a multi-year conflict over a homeless encampment. ”

“ For various reasons, older books were created or bound with materials that are poisonous. There is a project to find and catalog them all, and research ways to safely store toxic books ”

“ Wales has a library combined with a hotel, so you can sleep next to the books. ”

“ A retrospective and examination of the ground-breaking interactive fiction series from the 1980s. ”

“ The director of The Godfather discusses the physical binder and notes he used to adapt the novel. ”

“ An annotated photo gallery showing the detailed process by which a physical book is produced. ”

“ Someone is using all sorts of email tricks to get early access to novel manuscripts. No one knows who they are or what they want, but everyone in the industry is paranoid. ”

“ Dan Brown might have written a weird humor book, but no one knows for sure, and you can’t seem to buy it, no matter how hard you try. ”

“ A very niche list of science fiction stories that were originally set in ‘the future,’ but that real time has now surpassed, meaning the stories are now set in the past. ”

“ A Japanese craftsman restores a book. (Turn on the closed captions for an English translation.) ”

“ Very expensive self-published books on Amazon were likely used to launder money, purchased by people wanting to illicitly transfer funds to the seller. ”

“ The NYC libraries used to have live-in caretakers. Their abandoned apartments are still in many of the the buildings. ”

“ A son comes to terms with his late father’s secret career as a writer of pulp porn novels. He wrestles with the darkness that grew out it and that which it might have hidden from the world. ”

“ An episode of a web series that focuses on hand-crafted goods. This one is about a dying breed of bookmaker. ”

“ A librarian in upstate New York was the first to bring the Internet into libraries and coined the term ‘surfing’ to describe browsing the internet. ”

“ A sobering look at how the publishing industry works, from the perspective of a promising author for whom things didn’t work out so well. ”

“ Lovely tribute to the first CD-ROM encyclopedia that many of us owned, and the sense of wonder that it brought us. Wikipedia killed it, but Encarta was a refuge for me for many years. ”

“ A beautiful contemplation of the physical book as art object, with pictures of people who collection for no other reason than that books make them happy. ”

“ The story of the book which started the ‘heavenly tourism’ craze of a decade ago. The boy at the center of it eventually recanted the entire story, and his already-flawed family completely broke apart. ”