Amazon has issued the first major firmware update for the Kindle Voyage, new $79 Kindle Basic Touch and the Paperwhite 2 today. A number of notable features are now available, such as the ability to ...

Amazon has announced a new update for its Kindle e-readers that includes a number of useful features such as Word Wise and Family Library. The free, over-the-air update applies to the newly announced ...

You might have missed it, but a passage in author Christopher Hitchens’s 2010 memoir, Hitch-22, triggered a happy buzz among library bloggers at the time, and it can still judder the heart of library ...

Before even descending the staircase to the lobby of Z Below in San Francisco for Word for Word's latest production, a verbatim staging of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami's children's story "The ...

No one knew what to make of the strange-looking bike on the corner of 24th and Bartlett streets. It was parked outside of the San Francisco Public Library Mission Branch on a windy Saturday afternoon.

University libraries, Dan Cohen wrote last month, are seeing steady, and in many cases precipitous, declines in the use of the books on their shelves. There’s a path to making print live and breathe ...