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Researchers always need to be reminded not to put too much trust in the materials that happen to lie within easy reach, but the risk of distortion will be much greater if they confine their investigations to a shelf of pre-selected books in a library rather than exposing themselves to the awe-inspiring quantities of treasure […]

A machine that electronically stores 2.5 million books that can then be printed and bound in less than seven minutes is to be launched early next year. It prints in any language and has an upper limit of 550 pages. The ‘Espresso’ will be launched first in several US libraries. The company behind the project […]

Children’s author Philippa Pearce, who was responsible for books such as Tom’s Midnight Garden, has died aged 86 after suffering a stroke. The former BBC producer wrote her first novel, Minnow on the Say, in 1955, and her home – a Cambridgeshire mill house – inspired much of her work. Tom’s Midnight Garden, about a […]

Can you imagine carrying all the books from a public library on your keychain?That became possible in 2006. How about carrying the entire Library of Congress or British Library or any of the other great libraries of the world and that includes Le Bibliotheque Nationale de France. That will be possible by 2020, with room […]