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Next time you drop a book in the bath or end up with an otherwise water-damaged periodical, document, or photograph, reader pearce.kilgour recommends a simple solution: Put it in the freezer.Photo by dno1967.

You can find quite a few free audiobooks online but they're frequently scattered all over. Save yourself the run around by checking out the thousands of free audiobooks cataloged at BooksShouldBeFree.BooksShouldBeFree houses thousands of books in the public domain, available as both MP3s and as iTunes format audiobooks. Each entry for a book includes links to the full text, supplemental text, and reviews.

If you're a bibliophile forever in search of inexpensive ways to acquire new books you'll want to check out The Book Depository, a book seller with a focus on a huge inventory of books that always ship for free.

E-book readers are popular for reading digital books, but they've got their limitations. If you have a netbook, you already have a powerful and virtually unrestricted portable e-book reader on your hands. You just need to know how to set it up.(Photo remixed from nDevilTV and austinevan.)

Last week we asked you how much you would pay for an e-book, and just shy of 10,000 votes later, it looks like most of you (70%) aren't interested in paying any more than $10 for an e-book. The basic voting breakdown, from top to bottom, looks like this:

A week ago we asked readers to tell us how they're using Google Wave in their daily lives, and despite a bit of "ha! no one's using Wave!" snarking on the Twitter, we got lots of interesting responses.

Windows/Mac/Linux (Java): Data Crow doesn't just catalog your movies with IMDB look-ups, organize your MP3s and CDs with discographies, or handle pictures. It handles all three, plus contacts, software, books, and much more, and runs on any system.

Over the weekend, Amazon and book publisher Macmillan got in a tussle over the price of Macmillan's e-books. In short, Macmillan wanted to—and ultimately did—hike the main price for e-books from around $10 up to between $13 and $15.Naturally, it got us wondering:

There are a lot of nice bookcases out there, but many of them don't fit your exact walls, and most can't be installed in an apartment. That can be worked around in crafty style with plumbing pipes and some weekend time.

You can never have enough storage space, especially if you're a book lover. This clever hack turns the unused space between rafters into book shelves.