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Facebook Launches Digital Book Club

MENLO PARK, Calif. (CBS) - Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has launched a book club on the social network.

In a Facebook post Zuckerberg says he decided to challenge himself to read a new book every other week this year, "with an emphasis on learning about different cultures, beliefs, histories and technologies."

He has launched "A Year of Books" and the group will read a new book every two weeks and discuss it on the page.

The Year of Books page has already attracted more than 140,000 members and the first book is The End of Power by Moisés Naím.

Read Zuckerberg's full post, below:

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