Online retailer Amazon has said it will buy Goodreads, a book discovery and recommendation website. [1]

San Francisco-based Goodreads was founded in 2007, has 16 million members and is one of the most prominent online communities for readers.

Selecting which books you read is immensly important. Not because of what you finally choose. It is the books which you DO NOT select and which you DO NOT read, which at the end determine who you are…

(this is what the “Non Reading” movement mentions as the main factor that should play role in our book education: Knowing the whole “grid” of knowledge in which the books we read are into – not necessarily reading the books)