I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating.” –Alison Bechdel

When you stand inside somebody’s library, you get a powerful sense of who they are, and not just who they are now but who they’ve been. . . . It’s a wonderful thing to have...

Just as television didn’t put an end to radio or the movies (to say nothing of books), I don’t think e-books will put an end to hard copies, even for someone like me who loves...

RE: Kindle, iPad, et cetera: For a researcher, these new ways of accessing information are just extraordinary. I thing it introduces the possibility of a new standard of cognitive exactness and precision. ~ Rebecca Goldstein,...