Remember that old Sesame Street video that shows how a steel factory makes an I-beam? I love that. I also love the crayon factory. This book-making video is a gorgeous descendent. I have no idea how many places still make books this way, but I hope some always do. Enlarge so it fills your screen—it’s [...]

Can’t get enough of beautiful bookshelves, stunning stacks of stories, juicy journals? Turn to the internet for your fix.
Breathing Books posts amazing book-related photos every day, many featuring old leather-bound hardbacks:
And the Guardian has recently started a Flickr group for bookshelf photos, asking readers for the stories behind their books and cataloguing [...]

How often do we think about our books as physical objects, part of the essential furniture of our homes?

The Elegant Variation has a lovely little post about the joy of setting up one’s library again after a move:
So now the arduous task of refilling the books begins. First, we need to douse the whole collection [...]