By Andrew Liszewski
If you feel bad about spending more time reading email on your Blackberry than reading a good book this service is for you. DailyLit is a new website that will send small installments of classic books to your email (or RSS reader) on a daily basis. Each message is designed to be read in under five minutes but eventually you’ll finish the entire book. Of course how long that takes depends on the size of the novel. For example Around The World In 80 Days by Jules Verne is broken down into 82 parts while Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is a bit longer at 430 parts.
At the moment the service is completely free because the 370 or so classic titles offered are all out of copyright. But the company plans to offer newer books from major publishers and will charge under $5 for each title. I’ve got a stack of books sitting on my shelf I just can’t find time to finish but given how much of my day is spent reading email this service seems like a great solution.
This sounds interesting (once they get the newer titles), only I was thinking I could never sign up for a mystery or suspense novel with it – if it’s even halfway interesting, I’d get so frustrated reading just my little segment of the day, you can bet I’d be on amazon or something buying it shortly after. Mind you, it might be a great way to find out if you actually want to lay out cash to buy the actual book!
Belle
They could have at least had the decency to break “Around the world in 80 days” into 80 parts….
I love DailyLit. If you don't want to wait till the next day, you can ask for the next part right away. I've been catching up on my classics this way.
I love DailyLit. If you don't want to wait till the next day, you can ask for the next part right away. I've been catching up on my classics this way.