People who use the Internet to talk to friends, set up free e-mail accounts or buy concert tickets are often unknowingly helping to digitize vast libraries of old books and newspapers. That's because ...

A series of children's books have been pulled from school library shelves after a web address printed in the back was found ...

Once upon a time, I was in eighth grade and a book most adults didn’t want kids to read was passed around and read surreptitiously by me and most of my junior-high classmates. Several dog-eared copies ...

In a funny coincidence, I finished reading Charlotte's Web aloud to my little niece and nephew just in time for Elisa Mala's post about censorship and "kids" books. I wholeheartedly agree that it is ...

New books this week include Secret of Secrets — the sixth installment of The Da Vinci Code saga, plus a tech memoir from Tim ...

In 1943, when E.B. "Andy" White still was mostly known as a magazine essayist, a New York Times critic dismissed White's writing as "hogwash" and a "racket." Katharine White, a legendary editor at The ...