Rid yourself of the burden of carrying multiple books with an eReader. It just so happens that Sony’s latest digital reader is its best yet. This new model, the PRS-700, weighs only 10 ounces and features a touchscreen for easy transition from chapter to chapter. Sony’s also added LED backlights on the sides of the 6″ screen, so you won’t have to worry about lights out time raining on your parade.

With memory that can store up to 350 books, the chances of you running out of reading material are slim. In the rare case that you do run out of material, SD and Memory Stick Duo cards can breathe new life into the eReader with new reading material of your choosing. It’s as if a library was jam packed into a PDA, without the bitchy librarian and the “one book at a time” policy.

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Fancy a PDF read on a new topic? Of course you do! Learning is essential to getting into a hacker mindset. How are you going to exploit a server’s vulnerabilities without knowing any Perl? Lucky for us, the team at HackNMod found some shady FTP site (with an HTML-based index) that features hundreds of scanned books in PDF form. You’ll find titles on hacking, programming and plenty of other subjects available for download. Get on it, though. Who knows how long this will stay up before O’Reilly or McGraw-Hill sends over a DMCA takedown notice.

Obviously, bookends are not required.

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When you’ve got more manga books than you know what to do with, you’ll need some solid bookends. How about these Voltron-themed bookends? It’s the Lion Force working hard to keep those books of yours in check. While I like the Star Wars bookends more, they happen to be sold out, so I’ll need an alternative I can fall back on once our shelves become less cluttered. The Voltron bookends are yours for just $130 bucks, a price that most would be willing to spend just to relieve their childhood.

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Whether you’re an Ayn Rand fan or a Hustler aficionado, we understand your love of reading in bed. After all, your bed is the most private place in your dominion.

Sometimes we get tired, though. We are human after all. Not everyone can muster the strength to get up to turn on the light for a quick chapter. That’s why there’s this night light with a slot for your favorite novel. Pop it in and the light goes off. Remove the book and you’ll be greeted with the gift of illumination. At $150, it’s a bit pricey but any bookworm will surely make good use of it.

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A relatively unknown company called Plastic Logic today unveiled it’s new technology called E-Newspaper. Designed to mimic the look but not the feel of newspaper, it’s supposed to put current versions of e-ink, such as the Kindle or eReader, to shame. The unnamed device will make it’s official debut come January 2009 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas (we’ll be there), so until then, one can only dream of both functionality and price.

Due out in either Q1 or Q2 of next year, the device is aimed at hardcore daily readers and business users who constantly use documents. No publishing companies are on board yet but that could all change next year. E-Newspaper looks to be the ultimate Kindle-killer but ultimately the price will determine that.

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Erik Olofson is probably the coolest dad a kid could ask for. He’s a craftsman by trade and owns Big Cozy Books, a company that’s going to make a fortune off your kids. BCB designs and manufactures huge book-themed furniture that is intricately detailed and very swanky. Don’t show your children or they’ll be begging you for one until they’re 13.

What I want to know is how the hell did Storybook Land never have one of these things? If you’ve never heard of Storybook Land, try googling it. Proof I’m not wacked out on coffee! Huzzah!

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Reading in bed just isn’t my thing. I tend to be that dude with the laptop watching YouTube videos until 3:00AM. Fortunately, there’s plenty of people who do read in bed, creating a lucrative market for light-up book covers everywhere. But why shell out $14.95 to Borders when they’re not even going to bother to order Vaginal Release, Volume 4 for you?

Instead of buying a nightlight book cover, try making your own. I’m sure that if you’ve helped a kid build LEGOs or finger paint, you can figure this out. Plus, you get to infuse your creativity onto the actual book cover that houses the LED light. Isn’t that wonderful? Expression! Now!

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So you want something that will help you get organized similar to the Storage In Stairs, but you find yourself too squashed by your massive book collection to move around your house. The Spacesaver Staircase Library merges the two issues, creating one solution.

The Staircase Library utilizes all of its space by creating book shelves in the space under each individual stair. Imagine all of the wasted space in a normal set of stairs. Not here. (more…)