• Look for old hard covers – they have sturdier outer cases and, usually, high-quality pages. • Outdated textbooks have lots of photos and illustrations. • Look for books with supple, nonbrittle pages ...

A study once determined that an estimated 640,000 tons of books are sent to landfills annually. Rough math indicates that means around 320 million books are discarded each year without being recycled.

German publishing company Hamburger Automatenverlag found a brilliant new use for old cigarette vending machines — instead of icky cigarettes, the re-purposed “machines” carry a series of condensed ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. With stained covers, torn pages, and broken bindings, it can be pretty obvious when a book has reached the end of its shelf life. But just ...

Library purists, remain calm. Because we're going to talk about doing things to books that might, under other circumstances, send a shiver up your spine (pardon the pun). As mountains of encyclopedias ...

Growing up in a small town, I had big interests in finding ways to repurpose or reuse discarded items to transform them into something interesting and outside of their traditional purpose. I recall ...

In a time when paper and ink are being replaced with smartphones and apps, the Everhart Museum will encourage visitors to pick up a book. “Between the Covers: Altered Books in Contemporary Art” ...