Book News: Amazon Recommends, Cat-Like Tread: The New Yorker Amazon has bought the book-recommendation site Goodreads. An interview with Renata Adler about the writing life, rereading your old work, and why so much writing today is "like a race to join the herd of received ideas and agreement." Life advice, beauty tips, professions of love, and other strange messages that writers have gotten from their fans. After writing a critical review of Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In," Kate Losse receives a message from the book's publicist: "There's a special place in hell for you." The entire editorial board of the Journal of Library Administration has resigned, citing a dispute over licensing fees and a "crisis of conscience" after the death of Aaron Swartz. Scholars find the inky footprints of a medieval cat on the pages of a fifteenth-century manuscript.