Read the classics in email-sized chunks with DailyLit

[pegkerr]

From lifehacker_rss:

No time to read? Email service Daily Lit sends you a bite-sized chunk of a novel to your inbox every day.

Search for a book you'd like to read via email from an impressive list of classics in the public domain - like Gulliver's Travels or Moby Dick - and receive it in parts, one a day, at a scheduled time, via email. The message isn't too long and gives you the option to get the next installment immediately, or wait till the next day's scheduled time. Today I got part 1 of 145 of Wuthering Heights, and I'm already looking forward to the next installment. Great way to get a little reading in between the boss requests and v1@gr@ messages. — Gina Trapani

I've signed up for Moby Dick, a book I've always meant to read but never gotten around to reading. Taking it in little nibbles, I think, will help.

Comments

[longtimegone]

Excellent linkage, Peg! Thanks for sharing. :)

[airemay.livejournal.com]

I never finished Wuthering Heights, I think. At the very least, I don't remember much about it. I may look into this!

[woodrunner.livejournal.com]

I think this is a great link.

But...

Wuthering Heights?

*runs away screaming*

I read it twice in high school, and twice more in University. And I saw the movie.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

But did you hear the song by Kate Bush?

[woodrunner.livejournal.com]

No, thank God. I'm deaf in any case, so I've lucked out.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

::salutes::

Congratulations. Sounds like you've paid your Brontë dues, anyhow.

I Know Someone's Bound To Do This, So It Might As Well Be Me.

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

Do they have Remembrance Of Things Past available?

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is a great idea! I've always wanted to read Great Expectations but was never willing to commit to reading the whole novel. Little chunks at once will be fantastic. Thanks for the link!

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Nifty! The question becomes how much daily reading my inbox can stand.... I'm already signed up to Chapter a Day's Science Fiction, Nonfiction, Romance, and Mystery mailings.

Have you heard of it? It takes kind of the opposite approach...sends a two-minute read each day from a (usually new) book in the designated area, but switches to a new book each week. I like it because it exposes me to books I wouldn't stumble across otherwise, and then I skip on over to the online book reservation system at the library and request the books to finish reading 'em.

[raenaissance.livejournal.com]

Spiffy site. I'm now signed up for Pride and Prejudice - it's been forever since I've read it, and I don't remember much at all.

[gamps-garret.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for reccing this! I've just signed up for Austens Pride and Prejuedice, which I've been meaning to re-read for years. If this works, I'd like to read each of her books via e-mail and then re-read Fowler's The Jane Austen Book Club. It will be so much more fun when I can keep all of her stories neatly organized in my head!

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Coming back to this message a little late. How do you like Pride and Prejudice so far?

[gamps-garret.livejournal.com]

Oh, I loved it -- I got so impatient with the tiny bites that I finished the novel from the huge volume on my shelf! (I posted about my reading here (http://gamps-garret.livejournal.com/157612.html#cutid1), but it's not terribly interesting or in-depth.) I've also read the Pamela Aiden "fan-fiction" novels told from Darcy's viewpoint, and found them generally delightful. And, I received a gift of the newest DVD adaptation this afternoon -- I can't wait to watch it on Sunday!