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Immersing yourself in a book or in the literary culture is a great way to get more out of the books you read. There are thousands of sites online created specifically for people who like to read. Many of these sites can be used to find, read, discuss, and share books online. Here is a list of 15 free online resources that any book lover will enjoy:

"According to a company spokesperson, customers will be able to make a physical print book of a hard-to-find book, a public domain title or self publish a book. "The purpose of the test," the spokesperson said, "is to gauge consumer interest.""

"Enter a book you like and the site will analyse our huge database of real readers' favorite books to provide book recommendations and suggestions for what to read next."

"Freedom to read can never be taken for granted. Even in Canada, a free country by world standards, books and magazines are banned at the border. Books are removed from the shelves in Canadian libraries, schools and bookstores every day. Free speech on the Internet is under attack. Few of these stories make headlines, but they affect the right of Canadians to decide for themselves what they choose to read."

Who's the best to follow on twitter so that you'll have the latest on the world of books? Here are our choices of authors, agents, publishers, book pundits and newspapers around the world. Let us know who you like following too.

This is a great site for great books. It is updated monthly (from September - June) by the Greater Boston Cooperative Library Association, which is a group of over 60 independent school libraries. It organizes the books by grade (Gr. 7 - 12) as well as by genre and themes. The books they recommend are all recently published outstanding books.

"When a printed book is transferred to an electronic device connected to the Internet, it turns into something very like a Web site."

A few weeks ago, we published our list of the 50 best book people to follow on Twitter. Of course, readers had plenty of their own suggestions to add to the list -- so many, in fact, that we decided to put together a second list

Banned, burned and sued....a timeline of books

lots of cool book trailers here

"Whichbook enables millions of combinations of factors and then suggests books which most closely match your needs."

This is a great resource if you are looking for notable books for your students to read. The link also includes a number of other links such as the top children's books for the year.

"Books were once so scarce, they were chained to the desks. Now libraries can barely hold all the volumes they have."

"It's important for people to tell you what side they are on and why, and whether they might be biased. A declaration of members' interests, of a sort. So, I am going to be talking to you about reading. I'm going to tell you that libraries are important. I'm going to suggest that reading fiction, that reading for pleasure, is one of the most important things one can do. I'm going to make an impassioned plea for people to understand what libraries and librarians are, and to preserve both of these things."

This website will help with what could students read over the summer holidays

This website will help with what could students read over the summer holidays

A word tree is a visual search tool for unstructured text, such as a book, article, speech or poem. It lets you pick a word or phrase and shows you all the different contexts in which it appears. The contexts are arranged in a tree-like branching structure to reveal recurrent themes and phrases.