Books

People could one day read electronic books on displays printed on paper

People can read traditional printed books a good bit faster than eBooks on tablet computers.

Children from families with vast book libraries at home go further in school than those without books, a new study finds.

With so many ebook readers vying for the honor of replacing your library, how does a bookworm choose?

Bookworms and others in cities in the Midwest and West have beaten out Yankee types to reach the very top of a researcher’s list of the most literate American cities.

Few books over time have stirred up such controversy.

Gutenberg didn't invent printing. He didn't even invent movable type.

Find out if your home city is the most well-read and wired.

Dashing the hopes of anyone who wants to be their own grandpa, some theorists now say this darling of science fiction just isn't possible.

Books, creams, levitation and drugs all aim to reverse aging, a scientific impossibility.