During the week, we consume words in snackable, tweetable bites. But on the weekends, we have the time to take a dive into the murkier, lengthier depths of the Internet and expand our attention spans beyond 140 characters. We can brew a cup of coffee and lie back with our iPads, laptops, smartphones and Kindles.
Since you're bound to miss a few things during the daily grind, we present to you, in our weekly installation of Mashable Must Reads, a curated list of can't-miss stories from around the web to read and reflect on. (You can find last week's must reads here.)
In this chilling but necessary read about what it's like to be a (public) woman on the Internet, Amanda Hess explains that feminine usernames incurred an average of 100 sexually explicit or threatening messages a day, while masculine names received an average of 3.7. And what's worse: The responsibility for addressing such harassers seems to fall in the vague ethersphere between the Feds and the social platform.
In 2008, Simon and Martina Stawski moved over 6,000 miles from their hometown of Toronto to teach English in South Korea, never expecting that five years later they'd still be living there. But they found their calling. Instead of explaining the finer points of grammar and pronunciation to school kids, they chose to detail Korean lifestyle, food and music via video. Videos that now receive hundreds of thousands of views on average.
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When Edward Snowden stole top-secret documents from the NSA, he changed the world and the web. In light of the uproar surrounding government surveillance, Stephen Levy provides a special in-depth look at the year from hell for tech titans. The special report details how the Internet isn't a symbol of free speech, contrary to popular belief — and hasn't been for quite some time. But don't let the headline fool you; the long-term effects are still playing out.
Memoir, an app for iOS and OS X, organizes a vast amount of personal details — smartphone photos, Foursquare check-ins, Facebook updates, Instagram posts and tweets — into an easily searchable catalog and resurfaces your older posts at relevant moments. Its founder is hoping to turn our data into memories and those memories into more meaningful reference points for our day-to-day lives. But some flaws are inherent with remembering everything.
Many coped with the massacre at Columbine High School in 1999 through creative means, such as making movies, recording music, writing plays and books. One survivor of the shooting, Danny Ledonne, made a video game instead. This story provides a fresh look at Super Columbine Massacre RPG! from the inside perspective of the people who were there, including developers, survivors and psychologists.
This week, emails and texts implicated New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's staff with lane closures on the George Washington Bridge that caused a massive four-day traffic jam. Christie took responsibility, since it happened under his watch — but firmly distanced himself from the scandal (with a 107-minute apology tour on Thursday). The story is playing out like an episode on House of Cards, Garden State-style. Here, we run down the plot, characters, dialogue and what to expect in season 2.
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After college, one man's friends left Michigan for better opportunities, and he was determined to help fix the broken, chaotic city by building his own home in the middle of it all. He was 23 years old.
Don't have time to read them all now? In our Readlist below, export this week's must reads to your tablet to save for a time you have no distractions. Simply click the "read later" button alongside each story or or click "export" to send the entire list of articles to your preferred device.

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