dontwaitforinspiration: crookedwiings: cloudfreed: bbcbecausebenedictcumberbatch: did-you-kno: Source *Heavy breathing* because direct unfiltered sunlight may damage the older books and age them more quickly 🙂 *EXTREME HEAVY BREATHING* Holy shit that second pic is breathtaking like look at the colour and the …

The rare book library at Yale University has no windows..because the walls are made of translucent marble. Read more »

did-you-kno: The Logos Hope is the world’s largest floating book fair. The 430-foot ship is run by a German charity organization and staffed by volunteers. They have distributed over 7 million books to 63 countries in 8 years, and their …

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Okay that may be overstating things slightly, although there was a lot of hype like that in the press at the time.  It was all because of this book, Jap Herron, written in 1917 by Mark Twain… who died in …

That time the US Supreme Court almost had to rule on whether there was an afterlife… Read more »