Old Post Books — History https://oldpostbooks.com/history/ Reading and publishing as history: print runs, censorship, circulating libraries, paperback revolutions and how books physically reached readers. en-US Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:28:51 GMT History The Pocket Revolution: How Cheap Paperbacks Rewrote the Rules of American Reading https://oldpostbooks.com/history/the-pocket-revolution-how-cheap-paperbacks-rewrote-the-rules-of-american-reading/ https://oldpostbooks.com/history/the-pocket-revolution-how-cheap-paperbacks-rewrote-the-rules-of-american-reading/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:48:04 GMT Imani Brooks History The Wood Pulp Break: How Cheap Paper Remade the Nineteenth Century https://oldpostbooks.com/history/how-paper-became-cheap/ https://oldpostbooks.com/history/how-paper-became-cheap/ Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Imani Brooks History One Bookshelf in Common: The Library Company of Philadelphia at 295 https://oldpostbooks.com/history/the-library-company-of-franklin/ https://oldpostbooks.com/history/the-library-company-of-franklin/ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT David Morgan History Slow Radiance: The Book of Kells and Its 340 Folios https://oldpostbooks.com/history/the-book-of-kells-and-its-pages/ https://oldpostbooks.com/history/the-book-of-kells-and-its-pages/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Imani Brooks History Writing Back: A Short History of Marginalia https://oldpostbooks.com/history/marginalia-history-of-writing-in-books/ https://oldpostbooks.com/history/marginalia-history-of-writing-in-books/ Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT David Morgan History A Thousand Years of Contenders: Who Really Wrote the First Novel? https://oldpostbooks.com/history/who-wrote-the-first-novel/ https://oldpostbooks.com/history/who-wrote-the-first-novel/ Sat, 16 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Imani Brooks History Four Centuries of No: The Rise and Fall of the Index of Forbidden Books https://oldpostbooks.com/history/the-index-of-forbidden-books/ https://oldpostbooks.com/history/the-index-of-forbidden-books/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Imani Brooks History One Guinea a Year: How Mudie’s Circulating Library Ruled Victorian Fiction https://oldpostbooks.com/history/the-circulating-library-shape-of-fiction/ https://oldpostbooks.com/history/the-circulating-library-shape-of-fiction/ Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT David Morgan History The Locksmith’s Psalm: The Bay Psalm Book and the Price of Being First https://oldpostbooks.com/history/the-first-book-printed-in-america/ https://oldpostbooks.com/history/the-first-book-printed-in-america/ Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT David Morgan History Forty-Nine Survivors: Where Every Gutenberg Bible Lives Today https://oldpostbooks.com/history/the-gutenberg-bible-what-survives/ https://oldpostbooks.com/history/the-gutenberg-bible-what-survives/ Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT Imani Brooks History Bound in Iron: What Chained Libraries Reveal About the Price of Books https://oldpostbooks.com/history/why-books-were-chained-to-shelves/ https://oldpostbooks.com/history/why-books-were-chained-to-shelves/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT David Morgan History