Trevor from Waxahachie, Texas, wonders: If you find a typo or other error in a book, should you let the publisher know? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Who Do You Tell About Typos in Books?” Hi there, you have A Way...
Martha and Grant share tips and tricks for learning unfamiliar words in a book without breaking up the narrative. A handy online resource for quick lookups is OneLook.com, which lets you search several dictionaries at once. This is part of a...
People who can’t manage to go anywhere without a book might be afflicted with abibliophobia, or perhaps they’re just book-bosomed. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Book-Bosomed” We talked on an earlier show...
Remember a few years ago when Amazon introduced that mysterious device called a Kindle? People worried that electronic readers would replace traditional books. Turns out the death of the hardcover was greatly exaggerated. Also, the expression...
Remember the olden days of 2007, when Amazon first introduced the Kindle? Oprah named it her Favorite New Gadget. Some people thought e-readers signaled the death of hardback books, but as Nicholas Carr notes in the Wall Street Journal, only 16% of...
As ubiquitous as social media and blogs have become, people are still reading long form journalism! Grant shares some great ways Twitter has enabled the spread of long essays from sources like The Atlantic and Wired. In addition, services like...