I heart YouTube, I really do. It's not as if I have anything better to do than watch people lip synch or view footage of someone's cat. Sleeping.

Right. Well, as with movies or any other media, occasionally I want to watch something not just because I can. I want to watch something meaningful. Something I can relate to. Something earnest. Art. Poetry. Something. Anything.

Check out this reading by Poet Laureate and The Trouble With Poetry author Billy Collins set to beautiful animation. It's better than a video of your pet. Lip synching. To The Beatles.

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Check out a video book report on Michael Crichton's Prey created by, oh, say, a high school student. Then check out the professional video for Next created by a marketing team.

It seems the student has become the teacher.

Get the book State of Fear from Zooba.

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Starbucks has tapped Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier as this month's book club pick. Get it here from Zooba, watch this moving clip of him via YouTube, and read why Time magazine thinks the author is a rock star.

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Check out this YouTube short of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett playing golf. Thanks, Bookninja!

And to answer your question: Yes, I was an English major.

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Our blog has now been enabled for video functionality. Expect to see some cool, original book-related TV from us soon, but meanwhile, here's an ad for one of bestselling author James Patterson's latest:

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Michael Connelly's marketing people have got some serious brains. Check out this noire-y YouTube clip for his new book, <i>Echo Park</i>. Have questions? Just call protagonist Harry Bosch on the phone: (323)-244-5631.

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