For a long time, the exact material that was used to make these manuscript covers, called chemises, has remained unclear. Now, scientists subjected over a dozen of these book covers to diverse ...

Go ahead, judge that book by its cover. Book cover designers picked the best book covers of 2025 and told us what makes them so great.

the colour and the materials – not only the content. Sowiński adds: We should remember that, unlike commercials or posters, the existence of a book is stretched over time, and we judge the cover at ...

They had been looking into the material used to make the books' covers. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: In the Middle Ages, animal skins were the material of choice, but these covers were made from something ...

"Right now, we have no plans for further study in this area. But I hope to return to studying book cover materials at some point in the future. Still, Alar and his dendrochronologist colleagues ...