Guiding Light: Which book light outshines the others? - "If these people have nothing to hide, why do they sneak off to a dark corner with their tiny, battery-operated lights? Why do they continue to read after their spouses have gone to sleep? What, exactly, are these book lighters planning?" [Slate]

• Rentometer says our rent is below average for comparable apartments in the area. If only vacant units in the same building weren't going for less! [via Torontoist]


• "Moments after the nine-member commission elected him to the post yesterday... Councillor [Adam] Giambrone, 29, the youngest TTC head in recent memory, assumed control of one of the city's weightiest files." [Toronto Star]


• Microsoft's Live Search Books, which indexes Internet Archive texts, is now out in beta. It's fun. [CNet]

• TTC should look to private partners, Flaherty suggests [National Post via BlogTO]


• All-star panel chooses books for Canada Reads 2007 [CBC]