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I have become obsessed with Solvej Balle's story of a woman trapped on a single day. On the Calculation of Volume introduces us to Tara Selter, a woman living the classic Bill Murray Movie "Groundhog Day" but with no explanation or idea of how or why ...

I've always loved these decorative indentations on book page edges but never knew what they were called. They're gauffered edges -- gilt edges decorated by a finisher using heated tools to indent small repeating patterns into them. The style was ...

In 2007, Americans bought 103 million mass market paperbacks -- the pocket-sized books crammed into spinner racks at airports, drugstores, and grocery checkouts. Last year the total was 18 million. Now ReaderLink, the largest distributor supplying ...