If you love something, set it free. That’s the philosophy behind BookCrossing, a site that encourages readers to release their books to the ‘wild’ by leaving them where someone will find and, hopefully, read them. The read-and-release program has over 550,000 adherents who are tracking their releases and catches all over the globe. Happy hunting!

"Science fiction may be one of the defining literatures of the last century, but it's rare that its products get any kind of acceptance by the academy (and when they do, they're then generally called something else)." Guardian blogger Sam Jordison decides to try out a classic science fiction novel.

"Some people say Web 2.0 is fantasy, but this seems to be one more example of readers steering the Internet and the power of popular opinion." Thanks Terry!

I like to read a book before seeing the movie, but movies have done their part to boost the sales of books and to help keep them alive. This page takes a brief look at the relationship between the written word and film.

Wordsy.com has been nominated for the Best Online Community in the 2007 Weblog Awards. Apparently you don’t have to be a blog to win. So if you think Wordsy’s a great place to be, get on over and cast your vote.

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Answer six quick questions to find out what book you are. There are sixty-four variations, so you’ll get a unique—and amusing—bookish identity.

JoAn Karkos of Lewiston was so offended by the children’s book It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex & Sexual Health that she checked all the copies out of the local libraries and is refusing to return them. She calls it civil disobedience. The libraries are calling it theft. Things are starting to get ugly.

Well, it's been a while in the making but they're finally here: Wordsy badges you can put on your site. If you're a blogger and you'd like more exposure for your rantings, there are now a few ways to get your site to work with Wordsy.com using our new badges. We hope you think them as beautiful and functional as we do.

Uneducated and non-conformist, Shakespeare nevertheless attained the heights of literary iconhood. In Becoming Shakespeare, scholar John Lynch traces the history—politics and prejudice, fraud and forgery—that made the great poet, under-valued in his own time, into a modern literary heavyweight.

Back to the subject of getting our young people reading. Now that teenagers have found a book they like, parents are having a fit over what they’re labeling as pornography in the popular novel Perks.