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Verizon Wireless will support rivals of Amazon's popular electronic reader, the Kindle, allowing users to download material such as books and newspapers wirelessly from its network. Although Verizon declined to name the company's e-reader partners, they say that competitors are out there and are expected to be on the market in 2009.

The Chicago Underground Library has opened a permanent location at 2129 N. Rockwell St. in the Congress Theater building. The Library's collection focuses on material produced by small presses or independent publishers in the Chicago area. The collection includes zines, comics, perfect-bound novels, chapbooks, newsletters, art books, magazines and pamphlets. The Library is open on Saturdays from 1-5pm.

The Seattle Public Library offers some suggestions for reading resolutions that I think I'm going to incorporate into my own. Some of their resolutions include:

• Reread a book I loved as a child.


• Read a classic from high school that I've been avoiding.


• Read a book of poetry.


• Read a book written in the year I was born.


• Read a play.


• Read a book written by a non-American.

Library Journal has some suggestions for the year's best teen books for adults:

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Vol. 2: The Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson

What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Bog Child by Shiobhan Dowd

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Eon: Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Goodman

Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan

Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

Nation by Terry Pratchett