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Ahh... the joy of curling up on a sun-lounger with a good bestseller. Whether your tome of choice is an airport blockbuster or a literary classic, you don't have to weigh down your luggage with heavy holiday reads. Here are ten hotels where the term 'book-in' has a whole new meaning.

Luxe footnote: Hotel Gansevoort, NYC was the first to offer complimentary Sony e-readers by the pool. Book lovers should head for Hay-on-Wye in England known as 'book central' because of its 30-plus bookshops.

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Amangani, Wyoming, USA

It rises up rugged and raw to sharply pointed peaks. The winter snow gives them the strange innocence of a child's frosted ice cone.

The Library Hotel, Koh Samui, Thailand

The name says it all. This island destination on Chaweng Beach is all about minimalist white style, nothing to distract the imagination from all those good books.

The Algonquin, New York, USA

Dorothy Parker and her literary cohorts, such as Alexander Woollcott did a lot of thinking and gossiping and creating at this legendary hotel when they set up their famous literary club.

Hotel Rex, San Francisco, USA

This Union Square hotel was inspired by the downtown San-Fran literary salons of the 1920 and '30s.

Little Dix Bay, Virgin Islands

Forget borrowing a DVD, check into this Rosewood resort and you'll be given a reading menu.

Las Ventanas Al Paraiso, Los Cabos, Mexico

Head down Mexico Way and you'll find the best thing about the books available at Las Ventanas al Paraiso - you'll get to read them before anyone else.

Epic Hotel & Residences, Miami, Florida

The hotel offers Sony digital e-readers to Club Level guests and those lounging around the 16th floor pool deck.

The Bowery Hotel, New York, USA

Owner Sean MacPherson chooses each of The Bowery Hotel's second hand tomes personally.

Mandarin Oriental Dhara Dhevi, Thailand

When you are sick of spending time in the divine Dhevi Spa- one of Thailand's largest and most indulgent pampering palaces - you can head to the equally indulgent library at Mandarin Oriental Dhara Dhevi in Chiang Mai.

Find what brings you joy and go there.

Jan Phillips

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