Non-fiction texts, images, and a variety of anecdotes as well as essayistic reflections on reading and the work with and on books, as well as the personal relationship with books. Female authors, publishers, booksellers, editors, photographers, and printing house employees share their most beautiful, saddest, funniest, most personal, and most insightful stories connected to books and reading, including poems and novels, book covers, bookmaking, types of paper, e-books, publishing houses, readings, and bookstores, as well as the changes in technology. Stories from today and from 40 years ago and everything in between. The Konkursbuch Verlag is celebrating its fortieth anniversary. Forty years of bookmaking. A good occasion to reflect on what books, bookmaking, and reading actually mean today.