Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.

Hey, did you read:

• About books with secret fore-edge paintings? —Aimee Levitt

• That Germany has the highest percentage of low-wage workers of every European country except Lithuania? —Kate Schmidt

• That it's now possible to hack a car? —Drew Hunt

• About the female vigilante killer in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez? —Ben Sachs

• That Hollywood blockbusters had a better-than-average summer, even though some seemingly guaranteed moneymakers flopped? (And flopped big.) —Drew Hunt

• That positive pregnancy tests are a hot item on Craigslist? —Brianna Wellen

• About the death threats made against the Orthodox Jewish sex advice writer Rabbi Shmuley Boteach? —Aimee Levitt