The first-ever Kindle cost $399, and after it was sold out it remained out of stock for five months until late April 2008. With its 250 MB of internal storage, it could hold...

Storytelling and listening are as old as mankind. The Professor explains that reading, from an evolutionary perspective, came later and uses processes in the brain that were already there from learning by listening....

In Old English – the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in the early Middle Ages – “book hoards” (from Old English bōchord) were what we know as libraries or collections of...