This astonishing Believer story of a spelling bee picketed by spelling reformers was reposted on its authors blog in memory of Ed Ronthaler; any exuse, I say.
• Among the opponents of Google Books, it turns out, is Harold Bloom, who the New York Times's Paper Cuts blog calls "the closest thing we have to Google Books in fleshly form".
• The lost world of bookshop labels.
• Is there an award for most preposterous book design?
• A tecnnophilistine headteacher discovers how unwise it is to irritate Edward Champion.
