Many books get re-released with new covers when their movie counter parts hit the theaters. Here’s look at several iconic covers side-by-side with their newer versions.

The act of reading books is alive and well. Radio didn’t kill it. Television didn’t kill it. The Internet didn’t Kill it. 

Alexis Madrigal muses about Golden age of reading: 

Remember the good old days when everyone read really good books, like, maybe in the post-war years when everyone appreciated a good use of the semi-colon? Everyone’s favorite book was by Faulkner or Woolf or Roth. We were a civilized civilization. This was before the Internet and cable television, and so people had these, like, wholly different desires and attention spans. They just craved, craved, craved the erudition and cultivation of our literary kings and queens. 

That time wasn’t in some bygone era. That time is now. Grab a book and join the fun!

This isn’t the book of the future, but the cartoon is still imaginative. 

Jet-pack friendly reading material is important. Maybe books will go here, and we’ll have to deal the distracted flying issues. 

In the ongoing effort to warn an unprepared world of the rising danger from zombie attacks, one vulnerable group has been left out: small children. That’s Not Your Mommy Anymore is an inviting and entertaining story that helps early readers understand that a mom with fresh brain casserole on her mind probably isn’t their mommy anymore.