You can get sale alerts for all the books on your Goodreads "want to read" list. Whenever one of them is discounted on Kindle, iBooks, Nook, Google Play, or Kobo, you'll get an email. (This only works for ebooks, not physical copies.)

While it's not exactly the most dramatic reading in the world, Kindle's have long had a text-to-speech option for those looking to have their Kindle's read to them. If you're more of a fan of iBooks, Cult of Mac shows off how to make your Mac do the same thing in Mavericks.

iOS: (Jailbroken) If you have a jailbroken iOS device, you might have noticed that iBooks either crashes when you try to launch it or struggles to properly display books you purchased from Apple. A new version of the jailbreak tool Redsn0w solves the problem.

Apple announced its new education-focused apps last week and with a new version of iBooks it has also released a free tool for making ebooks, iBooks Author. Is this just a niche tool for creating textbooks or is there something useful you can do with it?

In an education-focused even in New York today, Apple showed of its new version of iBooks and its new creation tool, iBooks Author.

iOS: Fans of Apple's eBook and PDF reading app iBooks just received a new update bringing a handful of fonts and themes. Most notable is the new night theme, which basically provides a "night mode" for more comfortable reading in low light.