Fantastic vintage ads for libraries and reading.

What does your bookshelf say about you? Mine says: wow, this person went through a serious Plath phase.

A great idea for abandoned and otherwise ugly phone booths: turn them into libraries!

Submitters beware: three stories unlikely to make it beyond the slush.

The biographical dictionary of literary failure.

Some beautiful alternative covers to Shakespeare.

First ads for now-famous books.

Creepy but impressive shredded book installations.

Bad children’s books, like My First Little Boob Job and Mommy Needs To Go To Detox.

A $75,000 bookshelf, or, the world’s most convincing argument for buying an ereader.

R was originally the profile of a bearded man, and other alphabetical origin stories, illustrated.