Heavy books can place a lot of stress on the spines of your books as well as on your shelves, and you don't want them to cause damage or bowing shelves. Keep this in mind when stacking larger books.

A book fan has urged people to learn the 'right way' to break the spine of a book without causing creases and damage - and it's all to do with how you open it for the first time ...

If a book is correctly bound, the grain should run parallel to the spine. When tackling a problem on the level of individual paper fibers, Clare Manias, an assistant librarian for book ...