Think the World's Biggest Bookstore. Scratch that - think of a bookstore of free books that is as big as the world. Inspired by tracking websites such as Where's George? (the U.S. counterpart of Where's Willy?), Ron Hornbaker and Kaori Iha-Hornbaker gave birth to BookCrossing- members leave books in random public places for others to find, read, and leave in another place for another person. Referred to as "releasing books 'into the wild,'" it's a......

Funny thing happened after reading about Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel's acclaimed best-selling memoir that recounts her experiences with depression: I tried buying it. A trip to Indigo produced nothing, and the in-store computers revealed that no location in the city had a copy. That’s right: nothing at any Indigo, Chapters, Coles, or World’s Biggest Book Store. What’s odder than the fact that a book translated into 20 different languages isn’t readily available at any of......