One of the oldest Bibles will be available on the Internet, starting Thursday, a German university said Tuesday. Written on calfskin and discovered by a German researcher nearly 200 years ago, the half-finished text will become available for online readers, the University of Leipzig Library said. The University of Leipzig Library director said the half complete Bible was discovered in a waste basket by a German scholar. Liepzig University Library Director Ulrich Johannes Schneider said readers would be able to study the manuscript which has great importance to Christians.

Millions of British adults are becoming bad spellers and they are blaming this on predictive text functions of their mobile phones. In a study conducted by of spelling and grammar software firm whitesmoke. com 40 percent of the 2,500 surveyed could not spell "questionnaire", 38 percent misspell "accommodate" and 37 percent are confused by "definitely".

More libraries in Kentucky's Kenton County are letting kids and teens pay library fines by reading books. Under the plan called Fresh Start Club, introduced years ago by the Mary Ann Mongan Library in Covington, children up to 17 years old who incurred fines for not returning borrowed books on time can pay off the debt at a rate of 10 cents for every minute that he or she reads a book at the library. The reading is monitored.

A Kent librarian who claims a ghost has been flushing his library's toilet is seeking the help of an exorcist in having the unwanted spirit evicted. A 14-year librarian at the Gravesend Library, Gordon Jenns, 61, says the ghost flushes the toilet when he thinks everyone's gone home. "It's happened three times in the past 11 years, always around seven o'clock on a Friday," said Jenns. "It's very off-putting. "

A Westchester County library charged a dead library patron for overdue books. Elizabeth Schaper was asked to pay a 50-cent fine for returning her late mother's borrowed book at Harrison Public Library Branch. According to Schaper, her mother, Ethel Schaper, died on September 16, at the age of 87 after suffering a massive stroke. After her mother was buried, Schaper said she found a library book, "The Price of Silence," by Camilla Trinchieri, that her mother borrowed from the library.