john dos passos

As the Baltimore Ravens and Denver Broncos get ready for their big playoff game Saturday, there are plenty of opinions about how the teams and cities compare. But in one competition -- based on books -- Baltimore wins hands down.

The news that Borders was finally giving up the ghost and closing its doors after 40 years came as no real surprise. It was, according to The Wall Street Journal this week, the "first major casualty of the digital era in buying and reading books."