A tranquil library filled with books on wooden shelves, offering a warm, inviting atmosphere.

This week on the bookish internet

  • Great minds think alike…which is a problem when an author and a multimillion-dollar company keep coming up with the same titles. (Kris Writes)
  • Thomas Mullaney wrote a fascinating history about Chinese language reform. (Fascinating to me, at least.) (LitHub)
  • Elisa Lorello reflects on what it means to be “well read.” (The Writer’s Habit)
  • I’m bored of people “cracking” the Voynich manuscript, but I do enjoy reading about medievalists slapping them down. (The New Yorker, Ars Technica)
  • Patricja Okuniewska rounds up ten books that were written on a bet. (Electric Lit)
  • Na Kim writes about her struggle to come up with a cover that Jeffrey Eugenides liked. (LitHub)
  • Joanne Major reports on the comedy of errors that was the 1769 Shakespeare Jubilee. (All Things Georgian)