Do judge a book by its cover

By David Henry

There’s a lot of pretty obsolete and useless books taking up space on the shelves of libraries. They’ve been there for ages, and some librarians in Michigan decided to do something about it. They started the Awful Library Books blog that has become something of an internet hit, with around 30,000 visits a day. Enjoy some of the dreadful ones noted here, and perhaps submit your own.—Guardian Weekly