Here is a little die-cut door on the black front of a book about the afterlife, beckoning readers to the second, more brightly coloured cover within. Cute, but its likely fragility may cause some bookshop staff to damn the designer. The book in question recently inspired a whole batch of podcasts from the wonderful Radiolab, so the chances are that it's good.

• It is possible to overstate the environmental advantages of e-reading.

• A pertinent passage from President Obama's official beach-reading list.

• Max Cairndruff attempts to distil the formula of the Jeeves and Wooster stories, headlining his post with one my favourite Jeevesian remarks.

• Follow-up: Scott Pack sets out book-chucking criteria.

• One possible use for the eventual disposals pile.

• Which books go with which Ikea chairs? Everyone knows that, surely: it's always – and here I link to myself – the same half-dozen Swedish remainders.