(Watch on Vimeo) Sure, just about everyone wh...  ...Vimeo) Sure, just about everyone who reads has a book light. But do you have a light made of a book ? Don't be sad; neither do I... yet. This video sh...

books and art into one very cool poster: Postertext let...  ...ostertext lets you "hang" your favorite book on the wall as a poster. The clever poster takes...  ...n the wall as a poster. The clever poster takes a book 's text (yes, you can read the *strong class="mat...

You'll find Ed's Martian Book on Hudson Street in the West Village neighborhood...  ...ge neighborhood in New York City. It has piles of books to sell, but they are all the same title: Martian...  ...ere's no Ed, either. Kessler runs the store. The book is Mr. Kessler’s accou...

The Making of a Fly by Peter Lawrence is a well-re...  ...ly by Peter Lawrence is a well-regarded reference book on fruit flies used by those who study genetics....  ...sive. He found there were two vendors selling the book new, bordeebook  and profnath, and they seemed t...  ...construct. They presumably have...

What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex is a gr...  ...ng work by comedian Sheridan Simove. Sales of his book has recently eclipsed a Harry Potter title and Da...  ...o he must be on to something!Sheridan reveals the book in its full glory in this YouTube clip after the...  ...ory in this YouTube clip after t...

(YouTube link) Printing a book was different in 1947. The process required quite...

Gaspare Tagliacozzi, professor of surgery at the U...  ...t the University of Bologna in Italy, published a book titled De Curtorum Chirurgia Per Insitionem (The...  ...from his bicep region stuck onto his nose. The book tells how he stayed like that for about three wee...  ...oval of religious authorities. A...

We've posted about the World's Most Unusual Christ...  ...a, but this one made by the folks over at Juniper Books is my current favorite:Our estimate is that there...  ...favorite:Our estimate is that there close to 800 books that make up the Christmas Tree! You can’t real...  ...o it was glowing nicely throug...

During the Jim Crow era in the United States, it w...  ...town. For three decades, The Negro Motorist Green Book : An International Travel Guide was an indispensab...  ...me its full title — “The Negro Motorist Green Book : An International Travel Guide” — became abbr...  ...� — became abbreviated, sim...

Perhaps you can't judge a book by its cover, but Dan Wilbur of Better Book Titles can. Here's how he decided to "improv...  ...;improve" the covers of some very well known books :This page is for people who have trouble slogging...  ...have trouble slogging through...