Independent bookstores, and booksellers, get a lifeline just when they need it most.

Authors are suffering under the pandemic economy, too. They say the Emergency Library will make things worse.

People in the UK were stockpiling novels and home learning books last week as they prepared for a spell in isolation, sales figures suggest. Sales of fiction rose by a third, while children's education went up 234% to the third highest level on record. Puzzle books, handicrafts and true crime also saw sharp rises.

Teachers are taking to Twitter to express their gratitude for support during the coronavirus pandemic.

Beginning on Thursday, April 2, at 7 p. m. , Dolly Parton will be reading a children’s book for bedtime in a series entitled “Goodnight with Dolly. ” Dolly will welcome the viewers and introduces the title, author and illustrator. She will be reading it on her social channels. The books Dolly will read will include: “There’s a Hole in the Log on the Bottom of the Lake” by Loren Long. “Llama Llama Red Pajama” by Anna Dewdney. “I Am a Rainbow” by Dolly Parton. “Pass It On” by Sophy Henn.

It's no secret I'm a fan of the reMarkable, a tablet with a paper-like display that's focused on text and sketching rather than rich media and games. The sequel to the original, announced today, looks to make a good thing even better.

The Internet Archive is providing free access to a trove of 1.4 million digitized books to help ease the strain of the coronavirus crisis.

Hours of each day pass where I encounter nothing truly memorable on my computer or phone. What was I just reading five minutes ago?

Once a month, black men come together for The Marathon Book Club — founded to read the books that inspired Nipsey Hussle, who was killed in South L.A. in March.

Roughly a quarter of American adults say they haven’t read a book in the past year. Who are these non-book readers?

When scientists and others use their specialized jargon terms while communicating with the general public, the effects are much worse than just making what they’re saying hard to understand. In a new study, people exposed to jargon when reading about subjects like self-driving cars and surgical robots later said they were less interested in science than others who read about the same topics, but without the use of specialized terms.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the New York Public Library has released a love letter to books. Continuing the celebration of the institution’s 125th anniversary, the library culled together a list of 125 beloved books, chosen by librarians within the NYPL system. The list, collected under “125 Books We Love,” brings together titles of adult literature, spanning 12 forms and genre categories.

Fourteen days can feel like a very long time if you’re stuck in quarantine or self-isolating. Reading can help. We asked some Canadian authors about the top one or two books they would bring with them if they were holed up because of the coronavirus.

Children can learn quickly by sounding out words, letter by letter—but somehow, the method is still controversial.

Reading lists begin as a shelf full of hope until the year flies by, and you find yourself flooded with procrastination.

The same brain regions are activated when both reading and listening to stories, a new study says. It's a new insight into how our brains process semantic meaning.

The perfect reading environment is hard to come by, which may be why it so often comes with a high price tag. For around $1,500, you can own a leather library chair from Restoration Hardware (“reminiscent of chairs found in the great reading rooms of Europe”). The Levenger Catalog, which specializes in reader-friendly gewgaws, promotes a genteel fantasy of reading constructed around an “ergonomic and ambidextrous” reading table, personalized bookmarks, bespoke pens for note-taking and bespoke notebooks in which to scribble.

It’s mid-September, 2019, and we’re beginning to see the light (or to be slightly more accurate, the infinite pulsing darkness) at the end of the decade.

Susanna Clarke, whose bestselling debut sold 4m copies, will publish her second book, Piranesi, in September 2020

Once you do some simple math, you learn that it's completely doable to read 200 books in a year.