Bundle Who actually said that Famous lines traced back to whoever really said them.
Bundle The page is the point Books that would not survive being turned into a screen.
Jikji, the Oldest Surviving Book Printed with Movable Type Korean Zen teachings printed in 1377, scanned page by page at the BnF
Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Dinosaurs Six spreads of paper dinosaurs, each hiding smaller pop-ups in fold-out booklets
A Forest Language Hannah Fries's lexicon of 61 words for how trees live
Book Corners An open map of 37,000 public bookcases, charter sign or not
Finds
- Timeline: A Visual History of Our World Peter Goes's black-ink history of everything, one oversized spread per era
- The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip George Saunders's fable of orange pests, illustrated by Lane Smith
- The Quantified Self: Learning to Observe Gary Wolf's manual for running experiments on yourself
- Sleeping Beauties by David Byrne Why good ideas go dormant, and how they wake up
- The Importance of Being Scared Wisława Szymborska on why Andersen's frightening fairy tales were right
- Jikji, the Oldest Surviving Book Printed with Movable Type Korean Zen teachings printed in 1377, scanned page by page at the BnF
- A Forest Language Hannah Fries's lexicon of 61 words for how trees live
- An Illustrated Life Danny Gregory's book of pages from 50 artists' private sketchbooks
- Annie Dillard's "Living Like Weasels" A long glance with a weasel at the edge of a two-acre pond
- Transformative Experience L.A. Paul's vampire problem: you can't know what it's like until you've changed
- Book Corners A crowd-mapped directory of 37,000-plus little free libraries worldwide
- National Geographic. The United States of America Six kilos, 792 pages, and an anniversary stamped on the jacket but nowhere in the title
- Tolkien's Own Cover Designs for The Lord of the Rings He drew the jackets as well as writing the books
- I'm the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books Twelve searchable megabytes and a manageable quantity of paper strips
- The Tree and the River One tree, one river, not a single word
- The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson Same line count as the Greek, and it moves
- Infrastructure A field guide to everything that isn't nature
- Odds and Ends A picture book about the last time you did something
- Cookbooking: A Fan's Guide A history of the cookbook as an object, not as dinner
- Baba Yaga's Assistant Answer the want ad, brave the wood, make dinner for the witch
- Make: Fun! Forty projects from a man who designed toys at Mattel for a living
- On Looking Eleven walks around one city block, each with a different expert
- Sandcastles Made Simple A four-foot sand tower with no bucket, no form and no plastic castle mould
- Thank You, Everything A picture-book litany of thanks, built on tsukumogami
- The books nobody reads Mark Twain, in an 1906 letter to General Frederick D. Grant, on why lecture audiences never notice he's repeating himself.
- Uncovered Judge a book by its first page, blind
- Uncovered Tinder, but for the first pages of novels
- Jenny Volvovski's Unsolicited Book Covers A working designer redesigns her own library, one book at a time
- Anna's Archive Offshore shadow library with 95 million scholarly articles
- Hannah Arendt — Men in Dark Times On the strange humanity available to outsiders
- Embassy of the Free Mind Amsterdam museum and rare-book library for Hermetic and occult manuscripts
- Mary Oliver — The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac A poem on belonging to your own life, written after cancer
- Read or Rest Spinning Decider Bookmark A bookmark that flips a coin for you