I’m an unashamed bibliophile and I used to run a regular links post called bibliophilia. So as I clear out my links, here’s a special – all you could possibly want related to books

Reading

• Can you really read a book a week?
• The Rise of Digital Technologies and the Decline of Reading
• The death of reading is threatening the soul

Writing

• What writers most need to know
• Editing and Writing Aren’t the Same Skill
• Making a Living Writing Ebooks

Libraries

• A Look Inside Europe’s Most Enchanting Libraries
• How to design a library
• Mortality and My Library by James Smith

Bookstores

• Amazon’s data-driven bookstores & Amazon’s first bookstore in New York City sucks the joy out of buying books
• World’s largest bookstore opens in Tehran, Iran (12 miles of shelving. 12!)

E-books

• How eBooks lost their shine: ‘Kindles now look clunky and unhip’
• How real books have trumped ebooks
• The Deep Space of Digital Reading
• IBM put the equivalent of 330 million books on this tiny cartridge (didn’t quite know where else to file this one)

Organizing your books

• How to Organize Your Book Collection Your Way
• The fastest way to alphabetize books
• Living with 12,000 books
• The bookchair

Books

• 5 Famous Novels that Have Huge Mistakes
• 14 books about books
• Why you love the smell of old books
• Beatrix Potter-pinching and Žižekian swipes: the strange world of book thefts

Audiobooks

• Audiobooks get a glitzy makeover