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The 25 Best Tumblr Accounts for Book Nerds

Tumblr has built itself as the center of a large creative community. You can find graphic artists, hilarious GIFs and talented musicians sharing their work. It’s also home to countless readers, writers and book lovers. See also: How to Be a Better Photographer With Tumblr If you’re a true bibliophile, Tumblr has lots of blogs to feed your love of the written word. Here’s a small sampling of its book bonanza.

10 Free Audiobook Sites to Get Your Bookworm On

The Internet is overflowing with free audiobooks. On the wild frontier of the web, there are hundreds of sites ponying up downloadable literary works read out loud. We've rounded up 10 great sites that offer thousands of (free!) titles, from classic literature to children's books to educational material. See also: 13 Popular E-Books That Cost Under $3 Stroll through virtual libraries such as The Internet Archive and Open Culture to find literary masterpieces by Shakespeare, Jane Austen and more.

8 Parenting Books That Are Worth Reading

When you’re a parent, you live and die by your daily routine. Everyday activities like preparing lunches, helping your kids get their shoes on, or buckling a baby into a car seat with one hand add up to a carefully orchestrated performance you repeat every 24 hours. Because mundane tasks take more time and energy as a parent, it’s easy to become isolated in your family’s microcosm.

8 Apps to Make You a Better Reader

How many books did you read last year? If your answer is more than one, congratulations: you're more well-read than about 25% of Americans over age 16, according to a 2012 Pew Internet survey. Ironically, as we become more surrounded by words in the digital age, less of us are finding time to actually read them. The good news is that your smartphone or tablet can help.

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Paul Harding Joins MashableReads

Our next fiction selection for the MashableReads social book club is Enon by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Harding. Can despair be beautiful? The subject matter never is, but how we process the unthinkable can be intoxicating, especially in the hands of such a talented writer. In Enon, Harding addresses grief in phantasmagoric ways, revealing the mind’s inner workings during the loss of a child. You want the pain to stop, and Harding drives you to the brink where you hope redemption lies.

Oyster Brings 'Netflix for E-Books' App to iPad, Opens to Public

A little more than a month after launching an iPhone app in invitation-only beta, Oyster is making its e-book subscription service available to all users and expanding to iPad. Oyster charges $9.95 a month for access to more than 100,000 books from big and small publishers, but it now offers users one free month with the hope of getting more people to try the app experience.

16 Children's Books Rewritten for Jaded Adults

It's common knowledge that when you grow up, your soul withers and dies, taking with it your imagination, creativity and free spirit. (Sorry for the mid-morning downer). So ultimately, all those lovely books from your childhood lose their magic. Adults don't have time to visit the chocolate factory with Charlie, would prefer Waldo to stay lost and think Winnie the Pooh is lazy and gluttonous.

Predict the End of 'Breaking Bad' for the Ultimate Fan Prize

As part of Breaking Bad's home stretch, Sony is releasing an interactive iBook to get fans pumped for the series' last episodes, the first of which airs on Aug. 11 on AMC. Breaking Bad Alchemy, which is available on iTunes, includes eight chapters about the evolution of AMC's popular show and dives into visual and audio multimedia. You can win the iBook and other swag by entering our Twitter contest (see details below).

What Bill Gates Is Reading This Summer

If you're in the market for a light, sunshine-friendly novel -- something with an up tempo narrative and relatable characters -- then Bill Gates's summer reading list is not for you. But if you're a non-fiction buff with a wide range of interests, then it might be the perfect place to look for a new book.

Books, You'll Always Have a Place in Our Hearts

It's no surprise that e-books are slowly replacing traditional print books, but that doesn't mean everyone is happy about it. After all, you just don't get that fuzzy feeling cuddling up with an e-reader as you do curling up with a worn-out paperback copy of your favorite novel. SEE ALSO: More Comics on Mashable In this comic, Grant Snider of Incidental Comics illustrates what the world will miss most about those lovable books when e-readers reign supreme.

22 Books for Your Ultimate Summer Reading List

Summer is just around the corner -- that blissful time of year when you can kick back in the sun and get lost in the books you've been meaning to read for months. Whether you're searching for an easy read for the beach, or a more thought-provoking novel to discuss with your friends, we've rounded up 22 different books to keep you reading all summer long. Do you have a perfect summer read already picked out? Let us know in the comments below.

This Pen Translates While You Read

Learning a new language comes with its difficulties, but three designers are looking to put translations right at your fingertips. The Ivy Guide, a device that fits over pens and pencils, scans words and projects its translation directly onto the document. Check out the video, above, for more. The scanner tip adjusts to any writing tool with a flexible sponge, and while pressing the translating button, readers can underline text.

Alicia Keys Unleashes Interactive Storytelling App for Families [VIDEO]

Singer-songwriter and mother Alicia Keys, inspired by her relationship with her grandmother and desire to help children express themselves, just released an animated storytelling app full of gaming elements and music. The Journals of Mama Mae and LeeLee tells the story of a girl and her mythical grandmother. It comes with music Keys sang and scored, including the app's theme song, "Unlock Yourself" (listen in the promo below).

Findings Turns Your Ebook Highlights Into Shared Reading Libraries

The act of highlighting a noteworthy passage in an ebook is being socialized by Findings, an online destination where readers can collect, share, discuss and discover such highlights from ebooks and web texts. Findings' creators, the folks at startup incubator Betaworks, refer to their creation as a "social commonplace book," and "a platform for sharing and discovering what people are reading." The Findings experience is centered around shared passages and user libraries.

10 iPhone Apps to Get You Back to School

As August nights get cooler, we begin begrudgingly counting down the remaining summer days. Once Labor Day passes, it's back to school time for millions. The best part of going back to school is clearly the shopping. Even though a new notebook can go a long way in preparing you for the new year, the iPhone also has a ton of apps that will help to get you organized and in the right mind-space to focus and learn.

7 Superb Podcasts for Summer Listening

Alexander Hotz is a freelance multimedia journalist and public radio junkie based in New York City. Currently he teaches digital media at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Follow Alex on Twitter at @hotzington. Along with SPF and sunglasses, a captivating story can be essential for a trip to the beach. But this summer, beach goers should expand their narrative appetite beyond the written word.

Kindle and iPad Books Take Longer to Read than Print [STUDY]

It takes longer to read books on a Kindle 2 or an iPad versus a printed book, Jakob Nielsen of product development consultancy Nielsen Norman Group discovered in a recent usability survey. The study found that reading speeds declined by 6.2% on the iPad and 10.7% on the Kindle compared to print.

Reading Trails: A Visual Way to Find New Books to Read

As an aficionado of great literature - I was an English major in college - I'm always on the look out for a great read. My current strategy for discovering novels and novelties is to park myself in a bookstore aisle and scour through classics I've always wanted to read. This particular methodology can be quite enjoyable, but it's not an incredibly effective way of finding more than one book at a time.

Top 30 iPhone Apps for Organization and Productivity

So it's almost the new year, and you want to start being more organized and productive, right? Well we've put together a list of great iPhone apps to help you manage your tasks, track your time, store passwords, and stay organized. With these 30 apps you can create to do lists, invoice for contract work, access your computer remotely, manage all your online accounts in one place, print files to your phone, and more.

BookRix: An Author's MySpace That Needs Readers

This post is part of Mashable's Startup Review series, which highlights great unsung startups. The series is made possible by Sun Startup Essentials. Company Name Bookrix 20-Word Description BookRix.com is a platform/social network that enables aspiring authors to create profiles, get feedback, and share their works across social media platforms. CEO's Pitch Gunnar Siewert is the founder and CEO of Bookrix.com.

GoodReads Adds Status Updates to Answer the Question: What Page Are You On?

GoodReads, a social network for book lovers, is adding the increasingly ubiquitous status update feature to its site. Taking a page out of Twitter’s book, GoodReads asks not “What are you doing,” but rather, “What page are you on?” Once you’ve answered that question, you can also input your current thoughts on a given book in 140 characters or less.

Going Offline: 5 Books on Corporate Social Media

There’s one month left of Summer, and whether you spend these dwindling days basking on the beach or languishing at the office, sometimes you just need to unplug for a few hours. So if you want to spend your spare time boning up on the blogosphere, you’re in luck. There are a bunch of books that can help improve your thinking about the value of social media to the enterprise.
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