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It has held books upright in millions of rooms around the world for 30 years. As Ikea's Billy bookcase enters its fourth decade, why do we love to display our reading material rather than store it away?

Am a big fan of Billy bookcases -still holding all my books after a decade, despite the overload factor! A great book about the history of book keeping is Henry Petroski's "Book on the Bookshelf" (Vintage) A great read in itself! Thanks for the post, Jon!

Yes, my parents continue to buy all sorts of books that they never plan to read. I don't. I think it gives them a sense of ownership over knowledge, an ownership of ideas and ideals and they also enjoy celebrating important moments in history-something I suspect the latest generation is less concerned with (the coronation, technological advances etc.) perhaps because we have such easy access to info on the web and media.

Interesting tips on making sense of the Amazon book ranking.

So was this going to be a sort of book itunes?

A potentially useful source of book sales data

This is the cheapest copy available if any one is interested. Unfortunately this book is not available in the library.

iBook sales will cause a rumble in the market before a single sale!

You beat me too it :)

He blogs everyday, which is fantastic. With or without the odd malapropism he really is entertaining and informative.

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In which Jane Austen is mashed up....or Willoughby becomes fusion fiction!

Granta magazine presents Alex Kotlowitz, discussing his seminal studies of inner-city American life. Alex Kotlowitz is the author of Never a City So Real, The Other Side of the River and the bestselling There Are No Children Here, chosen by the New York Public Library as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century and subsequently made into a film starring Oprah Winfrey. For twenty-five years, Kotlowitz has been writing about America from the ground up, exploring the fissures in the urban landscape. He will be in discussion with Granta deputy editor, Ellah Allfrey.