Someone has said of books that they are our ‘amplest heritages’ of thought, and so they are. That doesn’t necessarily mean that they must be learned or profound. They are food for the mind and...

There is a somewhat time-worn joke about people taking up library work because they like to read : the joke consisting of the fact that librarians have so little time to read. But, I tell...

Books are only half our job ; the other half is human nature.