#book collecting

What’s the Oldest Book You Own?

When it comes to collecting, book lovers have assorted passions. Some people love collecting first editions. I dabbled in this ...

Why Keep Books?

What are some of the reasons we own and keep books?

Best of Book Riot: The Beginner’s Guide to Identifying First Editions, Part 1

To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll ...

The Book-Lover’s Guide to Spending Those Powerball Winnings

In my house, we play what we call “The Powerball Game” all the time—not actual Powerball, mind, but the fantasy ...

A Beginner’s Guide to Identifying First Editions: Part Two

In “A Beginner’s Guide to Identifying First Editions: Part One“, we went over the most obvious ways to discover if ...

The Beginner’s Guide to Identifying First Editions

What is a first edition? What is a first printing? I share some examples to hight a few very basic rules that can be helpful to identifying them.

EXCLUSIVE: Erica Jong on Writing and Collecting Banned Books

What a perfect way to wrap up Banned Books Week! A big thanks to the awesome team at Open Road Media ...

The Well-Readheads: Subject to Change

LH: So, it’s well known the ‘verse over that we’re bibliomaniacs – we eat, sleep, and breathe books. I myself ...

How I Learned to Stop Hoarding & Give Away Books

This is a guest post by Jodi Chromey. Jodi is a writer and blogger living in the Twin Cities area ...