In honor of the Beijing Olympics, The Guardian gives you the opportunity to test your knowledge of Chinese Literature. My score (5 out of 10) indicates that more brushing up is in order.

We've all seen those READ posters adorned with celebrity faces in libraries and bookstores. Now you can make your own READ mini-poster at the American Library Association's (ALA) web site.

When Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore) traded the physically demanding job of running his jazz club for the sedentary routine of a professional novelist, he learned he was going to have to make some life changes. For one thing, he was going to have to quit smoking 60 cigarettes a day. For another, he'd have to start exercising, more specifically he'd have to start running.

Murakami expounds on the art of running, what it means to him, and how it relates to his writing in What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.

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Speaking of the Amazon Kindle, e-book readers, and how nothing will ever really replace the experience of holding an actual book in my hands, I just now downloaded and installed the free Stanza e-book reader for iPhone to my iPod Touch.

Stanza's e-book reading software connects seamlessly to Feedbooks, a service that feeds public domain books - everything from Jane Austen to Jules Verne. Right now, I have Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Art of War, and H.G. Wells' The Time Machine in my Stanza library. In all honesty, I don't really believe that I'll be reading these books on my iPod Touch, but it seems like something good to have available for the long line at the post office or some similar situation.

Stanza boasts a wonderfully simple interface that allows for quick and easy downloads and intuitive touch-browsing through the titles in your library, and I expect Feedbooks will continue to rapidly expand their offering of titles.