As a self-publisher, the words written on the pages of the book matter more than anything else. But there’s the “wow factor” of the cover design that draws people in. With that being said, make sure ...

The Clairvaux Abbey in Champagne, France, holds nearly 1,500 medieval books written by scribes of the Cistercian Catholic religious order. For a long time, the exact material that was used to make ...

They say you should never judge a book by its cover, but as a man intrigued by the concept of judgement, the French philosopher Albert Camus would allow us to make an exception. Happily the covers for ...

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 ...