Of course, that's not what many of us said during our summer breaks of years gone by. But librarians and educators say summer is the prime time to get us into the reading habit. Marjorie Hernandez (mhernandez@VenturaCountyStar.com) takes a look at the summer reading programs in the county and the benefit for the kids ... in addition to giving them time in the cool of a library on a hot summer day.

Also for page one tomorrow, we're planning a story by Star Washington correspondent Michael Collins (collinsm@shns.com) on the Patient Safety Database, a new tool that will create a national database for reporting and analyzing medical errors. The goal is to improve patient care.

Off the wires, we're following the delay in the landing of Discovery; ongoing developments in Israel and Iraq; and oil prices, which hit a new high today.