Rebecca Rego Barry

What kind of book is dangerous enough to be considered burnable?
Founded in 1997, The Legacy Press has quickly become a bastion of scholarly work on the history of the book, and their titles have become collectible in their own right.
When special collections libraries and historical societies deaccession books, they often hope to keep a low profile, since the very act of removing long-held rarities from a collection can rankle don
Printing out Wikipedia is entirely antithetical, but that's beside the point, right?
Is it me, or did this short week bring more neat book- and paper-related stories in the media than usual? Here's a roundup, in case you missed them.
The Folio Prize announced this morning the shortlist for its inaugural fiction prize, sponsored by The Folio Society, publishers of beautiful limited edition
The Center for the Book at the Library of Congress has a new Wikipedia page, courtesy of occasional Fine Books blogger Jeremy Howe