Bookworms’ reading quirks are more common than you’d think. (We’re looking at you, page sniffers and back-to-front flippers!) As the daughter of a librarian, I grew up surrounded by books. My mother ...

Dr. Elizabeth Yuko is a bioethicist and adjunct professor of ethics at Fordham University. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, CNN & Playboy. With ...

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The late Nora Ephron famously felt badly about her neck, but that’s minor compared to how people feel about their reading. We think everyone else reads faster than we do, that we should be able to ...

These days, we’re inundated with more information than ever before. Blog posts, news articles and a never-ending stream of books “you just have to read!” In fact, it has been estimated that there is ...

Have you ever cracked open a book and instinctually sniffed its spine before reading a page? Me too. And it turns out that there’s a scientific reason why that aroma is so appealing. According to the ...