By Willa A. Cmiel
Book Bench explains it correctly when they call organizing your books by color “an exercise that feels dorky and juvenile.” But look, not (really) so! I guess the exposed wooden beams and built-in wall shelves help romanticize the whole nerdy practice.

• Killed book jackets from Print.

• Readers of the printed word are worth wayyy more than you are. The Chasm Between the Value of Print and Web Readers: $709 versus $46. (via The Millions)

• Upon my insistence, my family and I visited the Torture Museum in Amsterdam. As a twelve-year-old, of course, it was, if not all a joke, an abstract, “unreal” practice. If you haven’t heard yet, the CIA recently admitted some smarmy techniques for getting what they want. Newsweek has an enlightening and equally disheartening photo essay “Torture Timeline.“

• So awesome: The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks. (Tao Lin, where are you? You’re being one-upped, or something.)

• Wanted: Baby Jesus’ head. For reasons too dumb to explain, this makes me think of summers in Iowa at the pool.

• Margaret Atwood continues her “green book tour” thing. (And I just bought an eco-friendly phone. Same thing…)