Yoyobon,

I've put Bibliophile, An Illustrated Miscellany on my "for later" list at the library.

You may enjoy Footnotes From the World's Greatest Bookstores, written and illustrated by Bob Eckstein. It is about bookstores instead of books, so indirectly about books. I saw it at an independent bookstore and browsed it enough to say it seems delightful. It has been on my "for later" list for a few months. Oh, life is too short...

Great topic, Yoyobon! Just yesterday I picked up a rather new book from the library for which I'd been waiting in line for a while. Its title is The Library Book, written by Susan Orlean. I've only taken a quick peek, but it looks really interesting. Unfortunately, because several of my "holds" became available all at once (you know the feeling), I'm going to have to return this one to the library unread and put myself back on the hold list. But I sort of can't wait to read it.

Here's a partial description from Booklist:
Libraries pulse with stories and not only those preserved in books. When creative nonfiction virtuoso Orlean (Rin Tin Tin, 2011) first visited Los Angeles' Central Library, she was transfixed. Then she learned about the 1986 fire, which many believed was deliberately set and which destroyed or damaged more than one million books and shut the library down for seven years. Intrigued, Orlean embarked on an all-points research quest, resulting in this kaleidoscopic and riveting mix of true crime, history, biography, and immersion journalism. While her forensic account of the conflagration is eerily mesmerizing, Orlean is equally enthralling in her awestruck detailing of the spectrum of activities that fill a typical Central Library day, and in her profiles of current staff and former head librarians, including brilliant and forceful Tessa Kelso, who ran into censorship issues, and consummate professional Mary Jones, who was forced out in 1905 because the board wanted a man. Orlean widens the lens to recount the crucial roles public libraries have played in America and to marvel at librarians' innovative and caring approaches to meeting diverse needs and cutting-edge use of digital technologies.

Here's a great site.....Literary Hub's best books about books :

https://lithub.com/the-best-books-on-books/

Interesting article, Yoyobon. Thank you.

Scone with the Wind: Cakes and Bakes with a Literary Twist

by Miss Victoria Sponge

I'm currently reading I'd Rather Be Reading by Anne Bogel, a book simply about being a reader. I believe someone here recommended it.

By far my favorite book about books is Anne Fadiman's Ex-Libris, which I have re-read multiple times. IMO, she's brilliant.

Vee, I really liked Howard's End Is on the Landing, too. In fact, I copied Ms. Hill's list at the end of her favorite forty books. I've read a couple of them that made me wonder how they made it onto the list, but then I mostly just read for fun. One of them was the oldest version of The English Book of Common Prayer, to which I don't have access, and another was the King James Version of the Bible that I have replaced in my reading with the New KJV which keeps the beauty of the language but replaces the obsolete word usage.

If I remember correctly, wasn't it Forgotten Bookmarks that made its way around to various RPers a number of years ago?

Yes it was ! Remember each person tucked something into it before sending it on. That was fun.

It took one year on it's journey before it arrived back in my mailbox :0)