Plagiarism, ‘book-stuffing’, clickfarms … the rotten side of self-publishing

Scams are rife, particularly when some authors can rake in thousands each month – but high-profile victims of plagiarism warn ‘day of reckoning is coming’

‘I’m an Orkney librarian driving to a school when a wave engulfs my van’

My job as a librarian in Orkney involves hair raising commutes as well as running coding clubs and a community service

Okwui Enwezor: the Nigerian who confronted the European art canon

The curator, who has died aged 55, was the only person to curate both the Venice Biennale and Documenta, helped redefine what African art could be and provided a platform for the likes of Steve McQueen

Philosopher Mary Warnock dies aged 94

Lady Warnock laid foundations for special needs teaching and fertility treatment regulations

Oxford English Dictionary adds new entries: chuddies, jibbons and fantoosh

An Indian English word for underpants joins a host of Scottish insults after the dictionary crowdsourced regional terms

Do it yourshelf: the Jakarta libraries with book nooks on tuk-tuks

Inventive Indonesians are coming up with new ways to get scarce reading materials into the hands of youngsters

‘We spoke English to set ourselves apart’: how I rediscovered my mother tongue

The long read: While I was growing up in Nigeria, my parents deliberately never spoke their native Igbo language to us. But later it became an essential part of me

Why reading aloud is a vital bridge to literacy

Advice that children should still be read to as teenagers makes sense, as they learn the complex gear changes between speech and prose

Readers’ World Book Day costumes – from the Cat in the Hat to Mr Tickle

Here are some of the characters you told us about after late nights on the sewing machine

Campaigners warn of ‘book poverty’ as UK celebrates World Book Day

Tom Watson, deputy Labour party leader, condemns fall in library borrowing as a ‘scandal’, as organisers encourage parents and children to make use of free book token

Set the children free – show them the joy of reading for reading’s sake

To slip the confines of reality for 15 or 20 minutes is a superpower too few of our schools are nurturing, asks Guardian columnist Lola Okolosie

Give older children story time to halt fall in young readers, urge experts

Publisher Egmont says steep decline in parents reading to children – who thereby learn to read for pleasure – is ‘a significant threat to their wellbeing’