Books, it turns out, also furnish a bollard.

• Amazon is apparently stepping up its Search Inside the Book feature.

• The Hay Cinema Bookshop ought to look like this. It doesn't, sadly.

• Mark Athitakis on the dispiriting process of rereading JT Leroy.

• The slightly disappointing subject of the sentence: "It's the only thing I read on the train apart from the Talmud."

• Helen DeWitt's inspiring pedagogical ambitions.