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Rows of books crowding your home? Here are six new ways to display and decorate with books: (San Jose Mercury News)

• Form over function: Flea markets and garage sales are repositories of old books and encyclopedia sets that can be used to decorate, according to Marie Proeller Hueston, author of "Decorating with Books.

How good the summer's hot books actually are (Detroit Free Press)

The New York Times best-seller list -- the preeminent arbiter of what we're reading, devised through trade-secret methodology -- lately has featured an unusually wide-ranging selection of titles. So with summer reading in mind, here's my take on the top five books in each category on the Times' hardcover best-seller list.

Waves of fun children's books for summer reading (Seattle Times)

"Wave," "The Pout-Pout Fish," "My Chincoteague Pony," "Carl's Summer Vacation" and other new books offer fun summer reading for children.

Arranging those treasured books (San Jose Mercury News)

Reading books can be an unrivaled pleasure. Staring at them in piles around your home, not so much.

Library adds database to help find books (The Oklahoman)

The Metropolitan Library System has added a database that will help customers find books they'll enjoy. The database, called Novelist Plus, is an extended version of NoveList, a database librarians and library customers already use. The extended version includes nonfiction, unlike the original database. NoveList Plus contains more than 200,000 fiction and nonfiction titles, and about 20,000 new ...