We’ve been building and structuring a database of more than 25,000 of the best articles ever published, so that we can make it easy for readers to find something good to read. To get a sense of just how amazing this database is, you’ll have to wait a few weeks for the full launch of Byliner.com.

As a preview, though, Byliner editors are going to periodically dive into that archive and gather up some essential reading. Today, for obvious reasons, Byliner presents an Osama bin Laden Reader:

The Search for Osama, by Jane Mayer
The Dark Art of Interrogation, by Mark Bowden
The Long Hunt for Osama, by Peter Bergen
The Man Who Was Supposed To Save Us, by Tom Junod
My Father, the Terrorist, by Omar Laden

With President Obama fresh off the press conference podium, a joint USA Today/Gallup poll asked the American public how they feel about the U.S. mission to kill elusive Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Do they approve of it? Who do they think most deserves credit?

A collaboration between GOOD and Column Five Media

The life and death of Osama bin Laden

• FULL COVERAGE: After Osama bin Laden
• PHOTOS: The raid and the aftermath
• VIDEOS: The scene around the world
• GRAPHIC: Closing in on bin Laden

DOSSIER: Killing Osama bin Laden: The Washington Post’s reporting on the al Qaeda leader’s death

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VIDEO | “The Hunt: The Search for Osama bin Laden”

The Phases (Select from the chapters below)

• Introduction…………………..Becoming more like him
• Chapter 1……………………Cash in a Rubbermaid tub
• Chapter 2………………………………….Lessons learned

• Chapter 3…………………………….Somehow, he escapes
• Chapter 4……………….‘You have to know the network’
• Chapter 5………………..The strangely overbuilt house

VIDEO EDITING AND SHOOTING: Alexandra Garcia and Ben de la Cruz
WRITING AND REPORTING: Marc Fisher, Ian Shapira and Peter Finn
MOTION GRAPHICS: Sohail Al-Jamea
INTERACTIVE DESIGN: Grace Koerber
PHOTO RESEARCH: Dee Swann
VIDEO SHOOTING AND RESEARCH: AJ Chavar
VIDEO RESEARCH: Akira Hakuta, Jayne Orenstein, Tucker Walsh, Jason Aldag and Jonathan Forsythe
CARTOGRAPHY: Laris Karklis and Gene Thorp
INTERACTIVE PRODUCER: Sam Sanders
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Steven King and Cory Haik
PHOTO CREDITS: AFP, The Associated Press, Getty Images, Linda Davidson for the Washington Post, The White House

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Cf. What Obama said on ‘60 Minutes’