RARITAN TOWNSHIP — Rare treasures are already surfacing as the book donations drive for the Hunterdon County Library System's annual sale continues.

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Annual book drive for Hunterdon County Library sale unearthing rare finds (MyCentralJersey.com)

Chimen Abramsky, who has died aged 93, was a Jewish intellectual, historian, book collector and bibliographer of world renown. Although he wrote many academic papers, he published few books. Yet his academic legacy was huge.

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Chimen Abramsky obituary (Guardian Unlimited)

Frail, bone-cold and surrounded by death, Jewish teenager Anne Frank did her best to distract younger children from the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp by telling them fairy tales, a Holocaust survivor says.

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Memoir: Anne Frank remained a storyteller at Nazi camp (USA Today)

With local libraries high on the list of targets in swingeing cuts to council budgets, many more branches could face closure unless they are run by volunteers As soon as you walk through the door, it becomes clear that Woodberry Down community library in Hackney, east London, reflects the literary tastes of its local community. The disproportionately large number of books with Caribbean and ...

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Cutbacks at councils could wipe libraries off the books (Guardian Unlimited)

England win the first Test against Bangladesh by 181 runs in Chittagong after a spirited display by the hosts on a tense final day.

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England labour to Chittagong win (BBC News)

Hollywood actor to read Jim Morrison's poetry on soundtrack album for forthcoming documentary The soundtrack album for a forthcoming Doors documentary will feature 12 of the band's classic songs, five rare clips – and 15 tracks of Johnny Depp reading poetry. The actor appears on almost half of the record's cuts, reciting verse written by Jim Morrison. Depp provides the narration for When You're ...

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Johnny Depp to feature on Doors album (Guardian Unlimited)

There is a remarkable event going on in the world of journalism. In the Jan. 14 issue of the New York Review of Books, the scholar and political essayist Tony Judt announced that he was dying.

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There is a remarkable event going on in the world of journalism. In the Jan. 14... (San Francisco Chronicle)

Not every country has been so accommodating, but Italy seems happy to allow Google to digitize rare books.

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Why Google's deal with Italy is a good thing for readers (The Christian Science Monitor)

Just as prices for collectible comics are rocketing to new highs with the sales of two comic books for $1 million each, longtime comic collector and roleplaying-game trailblazer Stewart Wieck unveiled a new comic-auction site called GetSlabbed.com.

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New Comic Auction Site Launches As Comic Books Set Record Prices (PRWeb)

Just what makes this mighty media organisation tick? An exclusive extract from a new book about the company offers some insights To visit Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, is to travel to another planet

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A rare peek inside Google's HQ (Guardian Unlimited)