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!

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.

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.

You can vote once per day.

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.

Environmentally friendly and guilt free, book swapping sites are hugely popular. Aside from the obvious benefits for the trees, book swapping introduces readers to authors they normally wouldn’t have chanced. Not actually purchasing the book apparently lends freedom to the process of choosing the next read. But some authors, such as Jeanette Winterson, are not so keen on the idea.

I thought this was kind of unique. Find out what happened in the world of literature on this day in history.

Ok, so now we know you all suck at Shakespeare, let’s see how you fare with other authors. How many of these works can you identify? Only your first score counts!

Some of the world’s greatest books have been digitally photographed at high resolution and are now available for viewing here. There are over 400 books of varying rarity, and the collection covers a fairly wide range of topics.

“If you want to read books that tackle profound philosophical questions, then the best — and perhaps only — place to turn these days is sci-fi.” So says Clive Thompson, who feels that literary fiction has become a boring reflection of everyday reality and that science fiction is the last great literature of ideas.