This article advocates that students and teachers create some of their own extensive reading materials. Learning communities act as a means of motivating and sustaining student and teacher production of extensive reading materials. The article begins by explaining learning communities. The bulk of the article has two parts. The first part focuses on student created extensive reading materials, discussing benefits and ways to produce such materials. The second part does the same for teacher created extensive reading materials. It is suggested that involving students and teachers in creating ER materials facilitates more egalitarian, more caring education practices. [This article was published in "TESL Reporter," v46 n1-2 p28-39 2013.]