The backcover splat basically sells Terminal Freeze as scientists in an abandoned sonar research lab in the arctic are eaten by frozen sabretooth tiger.  Throw in a documentary crew who’s there to reveal the defrosted …

You could make a drinking game out of headlines proclaiming the death of books.  But the book itself was just a change from previous writing and record keeping systems… and in many cases never fully …

There four creepy crawly critters like to live where its damp. If you can positively ID these four critters, you’ll have good odds of identifying books that have been improperly stored somewhere damp.

Any bookshop owner with a small shop knows how quickly a comfortable shop can suddenly get swelteringly hot on a busy summer day.  Just add extra people! Once the temperature starts to climb, cooling costs …

The bestsellers on the used market aren’t necessarily the best sellers you see on the New York Times list or on Amazon’s hot list.  Often they bear no relation to each other.  However, statistics on …

Wow, this book has been signed by the author!  It must be worth a lot!
Not so fast, is that a real signature?  A real signature can vastly increase the price on a book while a …

Time recently published an article on incentive programs to help raise test scores in the US.  The entire idea was the controversial.  PAY kids for learning?  SACRILEDGE. Various programs were tested.  Did paying for grades …

Everybody looks at books when scouting, but the smell, feel, sound and even the taste of a book may tell you much more about a book than reading the title ever would.

There comes a time when every book starts to fall apart and it just isn’t worth trying to save. There’s many other copies in better condition and there’s nothing about THAT specific copy that merits repairing a broken binding or putting up with missing pages. Such old, tattered books are the perfect material for altered books. Altered books are simply books remade into new and interesting artwork…

You have an address,  so everybody should know where you are, right?  Not so fast.  Even with a GPS it’s not always easy to figure out where exactly you are.  Good directions can mean the …