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Most folks have heard about\u00a0Netflix<\/a>, an internet video streaming website for users to be able to watch movies, TV shows, documentaries, etc. What about reading books, though. We have also heard about the Nook<\/a> or Amazon Fire<\/a>. But what if you want to have a service like Netflix for your books? (I’ve never used Amazon Fire, so I will stick with the Nook here.) The Nook has free books you can download, but often, I find them to be not very well written. The solution I found was Oyster<\/a>. This is an app for i-Devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod). The fee for unlimited books is $9.99\/month. It has more than 500,000 titles including many\u00a0best-sellers to choose from including Stephen King, Dan Brown, John Irving, etc.<\/p>\n

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I am currently reading Stephen King’s\u00a011\/22\/63<\/em>, but I have several more books on my reading list.\u00a0I have been able to find several math-related books. Here is a list (in no particular order) of the ones I have added to my reading list:<\/p>\n