The following Web sites are of interest to readers, music, and movie fans.  Some sites are commercial.  Placer County Library presents these sites as information and does not endorse or recommend any specific site from a business or commercial perspective.

BookSpot - Search engines, lists, reviews, book club reads, and interesting facts about books, authors, children's literature, and more....

California Center for the Book - a nonprofit reading promotion agency that provides services and resources to librarians throughout the state.

Gnooks - Gnooks is a self-adapting community system based on the "gnod engine".  Discover new writers you will like, travel the map of literature and discuss your favorite books and authors.  Also features music and movies.

Internet Movie Database - Self titled "Earth's Biggest Movie Database", IMDb contains information about current films, DVD/Videos, and Film Industry news.

LibraryThing - Catalog your books online.  "LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes with suggestions on what to read next, and so forth."

Metacritic - "Metacritic compiles reviews from respected critics and publications for film, vidio/dvd, books, music, television, and games"

Project Gutenberg Consortia Center - thousands of e-books free to download.  Many classics may be found on PDF in the Coradella Collection.