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.)
Sochi was a resort town surrounded by marshland, not concrete and asphalt. Many have questioned the wisdom of selecting these wetlands as the site for the Olympics — both because it's difficult and potentially dangerous to build on, and construction can wreak havoc on the area's abundant wildlife.

An excavator demolishes a building in Sochi on May 15, 2013. The three-story apartment building began leaning after a traffic tunnel being constructed for the 2014 Winter Olympics collapsed nearby, the local media said.
Image: Image: AFP/Getty Images
Are anti-bullying activists the saviors of the Internet or just a different kind of curse? In a riveting read on the pros and cons of using the media to achieve justice, Emily Bazelon investigates how Anonymous works — and the potential “dark side of white-knight vigilantism."
The Internet loves nothing more than a good challenge. So when a woman asked an online forum for help decoding long strings of letters left by her grandmother on her deathbed, users stepped up to the plate, interpreting the decades-old mystery in a matter of minutes.

On her deathbed, Dorothy Holm left her grandchildren coded puzzles on index cards. 20 years later, the website Ask MetaFilter has finally helped the Holm family begin to unravel the mystery.
Image: Janna Holm
Steven Lloyd Sadler, a former Silk Road dealer who went by the alias "Nod," ran the digital storefront of the online drug marketplace known as Silk Road. He took orders, made the all-important supply connections and coordinated shipping. This deep dive delves into Nod's frenetic double life, multiple identities and reinvention as a heroin kingpin.
This year, many Olympians' families will be cheering them on from the comfort of their couches, not the stands in the Olympic Park. The safety concerns swirling around the Sochi Games are at an all time-high; terrorists have threatened to strike the Games, causing many athletes to tell their loved ones to stay at home. They'll wave to them on TV.
“He seems to love — as in, romantically love — his phone," Lessley Anderson writes, delving inside the mind of a tech fanboy. Fanboys crawl ever corner of the Internet, not just Apple stores.
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.