Obviously, she says, there are a lot of “Little House” geeks out there. “It seems really amazing,” McClure says, “that a $40 hardcover book that is mostly footnotes would be in such ...

The distance between that fifth “Little House” book and the previous one, “On the Banks of Plum Creek,” feels vast. From the first pages of “Silver Lake,” it’s clear a threshold has ...

Some hardcover books need a little breaking in—especially if you experience "creep" (text getting lost in the gutter of the pages). Here's how to solve this problem without ruining the book's spine.

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