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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.

Ed. note: If you do extensive reading on a computer screen you know how quickly stark black-on-white text can strain your eyes. One Lifehacker reader, tired of straining his eyes, changed the default background color with pleasing results.

Nearly one year after arriving on iPhones and iPod touch, Amazon's Kindle app has arrived on BlackBerry. As you might expect, it synchronizes your books, bookmarks, notes, and last pages read with an actual Kindle, or the iPhone or desktop Kindle software.

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:

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:

It started as a media industry murmur, but now it's official: the New York Times, the most popular online newspaper in the U.S., will begin charging for access to its web site content after readers visit an as yet undetermined number of articles per month. Paid print subscribers will not be charged for online articles.

Windows/Mac/Linux (AIR): Say what you will about newspapers, but the old gray ladies are laid out for quick reading. Cross-platform app (and webapp) Readefine breaks any site or feed into column-split articles and easy access jumps to other posts.