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Will Auston Matthews eventually move from the ice to the page? Photo Credit: Rene Johnston via Toronto Star There might come a day when Auston Matthews will earn a nickname as iconic as Black Mamba. Thus far, sportswriters and their talking head counterparts have been flummoxed coining a...

Kobo in Conversation: a page-turning podcast, hosted by Rakuten Kobo CEO Michael Tamblyn "Mic check, 1, 2, 3." Attention booklovers! Welcome to your new favourite podcast. Every two weeks, beginning January 3rd, 2019, join our CEO (and fellow booklover) Michael Tamblyn, as he welcomes famous authors and other...

Want something the whole family can enjoy as the holidays approach? Here are our top picks for family-friendly audiobooks.

"We put Kobo Forma through some very unofficial tests. And we got creative."As a technology company created by booklovers, for booklovers, we are always looking for ways to make the reading experience better. What could be better than a paper book you say? Isn’t the technology of a...

In this special episode of Kobo in Conversation, Kobo staff share their top book recommendations for the holiday season.

We followed a book collector this year to Hay, the famous town in Wales, which grows three times its size during the annual Hay-On-Wye Festival.

Every narrator is, to some degree, unreliable. Each and every story, from dirty gossip to holy gospel, has been filtered by the perspective of the storyteller, sometimes twisted beyond recognition.Narrative is always relative, by nature, and authors can exploit this ambiguity to their advantage. An unreliable narrator forces...

From an architectural graveyard to the underbelly of a major highway, here are six hidden spots in Toronto to spend some time with a good book.

What did your reading life look like in the era right before the internet exploded? Remember the agony of dial-up? Life before memes, throwbacks, and social media? Were you busy reading Goosebumps underneath the covers by flashlight? Was it the decade you first discovered Harry Potter (disclaimer...

Photo Credit: Ted Belton After the sudden passing of a friend, Gillian Murphy decided to switch gears and live life without regret. Remembering a trip to the Philippines where she had fallen in love with a farm, Gillian packed up her life in the city, ventured up...