Now a nonprofit organization with a network of more than 150,000 free book exchanges in 120 countries, the Little Free Library movement started in 2009 when a Wisconsin man mounted a wooden container, ...

The popular e-book download site Z-Library was shut down earlier this month by U.S. federal authorities, as we reported last week, likely for the distribution of pirated materials. This left students ...

You've probably seen those free book boxes around town where you can take a book or leave one, or maybe a CD by BJ Leiderman, who writes our theme music. Many of them are associated with a nonprofit ...

If libraries didn't already exist, our current political system would never allow us to build them. The concept it too revolutionary: All of the knowledge and entertainment of humanity made available, ...

With a free library card and the right app, you can check out e-books, audiobooks and more from your local branch. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer is the author or co-author of eight books on ...

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As the city of Philadelphia continues to grapple with widespread gun violence, the city’s Rebuild program has announced that work is set to begin on some of their 12 Rebuild library sites. Kingsessing ...

While U.S. authorities were taking down the free and popular (and potentially illegal) e-book download site Z-Library, and arrest those affiliated with it this past month, internet archivers were ...

An Arlington resident is seeking to create a map of every curbside library in the county, and he’s asking for the community’s help. Constantin Kostenko, creator of the newly launched Arlington Mini ...

If you're out for a walk in the Mill Road area of Chelmsford, you might chance an encounter with Radley, a personable-looking robot with a mission -- to promote reading. Radley's data banks are ...

Comics have been bringing joy to people for over a century, but how we read them is always changing. Whether it was the change from buying comics at newsstands to having a pull list at your local ...