I admit it, I’m a Potter fan. Not only have I read all the books, but I have also dressed up as Draco Malfoy on multiple occasions. With all the hype about the sixth movie, I can’t wait to get to the theatre and check it out! Unfortunately, I can’t make it until Sunday, but I’ll be there with my Slytherin tie on. What about you? Have you already seen it? Do you have plans to see it this weekend? Will you be dressing up? Let us know on our poll at weRead.

You can also participate in an active discussion on whether the movie will be better than the book, or at least do justice to it.

It’s said that books have the power to change lives. Is there such a book in your life? This is the topic of our latest poll on the weRead homepage. 66% of the people who have taken the poll so far have said that a book has changed their life. We’ve also received some interesting “Other” votes. For example, many people have responded that not just one book has changed their life, but several of them have. Of course, some people took a more humorous outlook and responded with things like, “It once filled me with courage and energy to read a Harry Potter book!”

Regardless of what your answer may be we want to know what you think!

Recently, weRead launched a new feature on our homepage, polls! We want to hear what you all think, and so we will be regularly asking questions for your feedback. Sometimes this will be on things you might like to see on the site, or something similar, but sometimes it will be a little more fun. Currently, we want to know “If Shakespeare were alive today, he would be…”? We’ve gotten a lot of interesting responses, but so far 40% of you think he would be a struggling author.

What does this tell us about the state of the industry when we think that the playwright we all read in high school would have to struggle to get anything published if he were alive today? Maybe he would be on weRead trying to promote his books, or publish them for free on a self-publishing site like Lulu.com? Regardless, this is exactly why we started weRead in the first place. We want to help struggling writers find new avenues for reaching their fans, and to help book lovers to find books they might not have ever heard of, and share their love of books with their friends. It’s a tall order to be sure, but maybe we can help the next William Shakespeare connect with his or her fans.

If you’ve got an opinion, we’ve got a way for you to share it on weRead. Take a look at the new Quick Poll feature we launched on our home page. This week, we are celebrating the 445th anniversary of the Bard. Our poll seeks to find out what weReaders think William Shakespeare would be, if he were alive today. We have received hundreds of responses within the first twelve hours; proving that, no matter what people think Shakespeare would be if he were alive, he is very popular.

If you want more Shakespeare, check out the reader-contributed Shakespeare Quiz, or go to his profile on Author’s Corner and start reading his classics for free.

Our last week’s poll was on the power of books as agents of change. We asked whether weReaders thought Barack Obama’s book, Audacity of Hope helped his presidential campaign. 69% of weReaders felt that the book did help!

Please email us, or tweet to us if you have suggestions for polls we should be conducting. If your suggestion gets picked, we will feature your weRead profile on the home page!