Its finally happened. First we could download them, now we can chat, share and comment on them.Yes, I'm talking about books, and how they're hitting their 21st Century stride on a webiste called BookGlutton.com

If your someone who can't resist reading a paragraph out loud, discussing an interesting thought, turn of a phrase or plot twist with whoever happens to be close by, then this site's for you.

You can chat inside any chapter, click in any paragraph and attach a comment - someone can come in later and respond to that. Read more about it on NPR's All Things Considerered. Better yet, check the site out for yourself and start reading and sharing. 

Going where no electronic book has gone before, Kindle tentatively steps into the waters of advertising and TV combined by working with Showtime to offer users a free, downloadable version of the pilot script of its new series "Nurse Jackie" starring Edie Falco. What's the next step? An ikindlephone?

The smaller, more colorful and cheaper version of the Kindle

is seen as tackier, clumsier and lamer by New York Times' reviewer David Pogue. Do you agree?

I dare anyone to catch a glimpse of this title in a bookstore and resist a double take.

Neil MacFraquar, the current United Nations correspondent for the New York Times, went to elementary school in Libya and spent a considerable amount of time traveling around and covering the middle east as the NYT's foreign correspondent based out of Cairo in the early 90s.

His new book, a memoir of his days as a foreign correspondent serves up wry anecdotes of the recent history of the middle east, thru the eyes of an American who knows the region well.

For a review of the book, read the full article in the Christian Science Monitor.

'So much to read, so little time' reads the tagline of the new website Book Review Links, an amalgam of RSS feeds from some of the most respected newspapers and radio stations in the US and London.

This website is like ALLTOP but for book reviews. Add it to your favorite bookmarks and stay up-to-date on the latest fiction and non-fiction book reviews. You might even find yourself impulse buying a book or two.

Wandering around The Strand yesterday I could not help but be amazed by the amount of people there. Who says that people don't read? I could barely move!

Obviously, there were quite a few tourists in the lot. After all, if you claim to have 18 miles of books and you're not the Library of Congress, you are by definition an attraction.

But there were also many wanderers like me who were just there enjoying the experience. There is something to be said about navigating through book stacks, smelling people's curiosity as they leaf though old volumes and new paperbacks. It conveys a quiet feeling of excitement. 

The Strand knows what it is doing. It carries everything - cheaper. And it seems to understand that books are not just about their content; they are also about making us feel part of something greater than us.

That's why, I guess, they cleverly offer the ultimate anti-digital service. The Strand offers to help decorate your walls with books. "We will custom design a library that is sure to be a perfect match for any home or office space, one
that will please the eye and satisfy the mind." The service is called "Books by the Foot".