There are few perfect sites on the internet. DailyLit is one of them.
If you are like us, you spend hours each day reading email but don’t find the time to read books. DailyLit brings books right into your inbox in convenient small messages that take less than 5 minutes to read. This works incredibly well not just on your computer but also on a Treo, Blackberry, Sidekick or whatever the PDA of your choice. In the words of Dr. Seuss: Try it, you might like it!
How does this work?
- You select a book.
- You provide an e-mail address.
- You schedule delivery of the e-mail.
- DailyLit mails a small chunk of the text you’ve selected per your schedule.
This is absolutely brilliant. And it’s free!
Always wanted to read Moby Dick but never found the time? Now you’ve got no excuse. You can have the whiteness of the whale delivered in bite-sized chunks. Curious about Dickens? Sample one of several novels. Try Shakespeare or Twain. Read Dracula or Sherlock Holmes. Or read one of my all-time favorite novels, Willa Cather’s My Antonia.
DailyLit currently offers 93 public-domain classics, drawn from the archives at Project Gutenberg. You can check the available titles here:
DailyLit promises not to abuse your e-mail address. Each installment also allows you to request the next episode immediately, so that if you must know what Ishmael and Queequeg are up to, you can find out right away. My only wish is that there were capsule summaries of the available books.
DailyLit makes reading easy.
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Thanks for the reminder about the site! I had read about this when it started, but then completely forgot about it.
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If you like that, then you definitely need to check out Podiobooks.com. Brand new books, by new authors in Audiobook format delivered to you for FREE. I’ve got 2 published there, Sonic Fiction and More Sonic Fiction. Both anthologies of short stories narrated by myself.
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Brilliant! Thanks for posting this.
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Reader’s Digest Condensed books for the Digital Age?
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[...] – September 14, 2006 Free books by e-mail Daily Lit (via JD Roth) is a fantastic idea for a service. You pick a book and they e-mail you aportion of it each day (at the time of your choosing). It’s free too. They have some classics that I’ve wanted to read and this is a great way to do it. [...]
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Read the classics in email-sized chunks with DailyLit…
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……
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It’s a cool idea but for me personally I think it would drive me nuts! If I was engaged I would want to read the more NOW and not have to wait for the next installment.
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Laura, what’s cool about this is that there’s a “send me the next installment now” link at the end of every e-mail message, just for those times when you have more time or find yourself engaged!
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Thank you very much for recommending the site! I think this is a fabulous idea!
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[...] I’ve come across a lot of sites which are introducing Daily Lit, and it’s a real neat concept that I’ve decided to try, myself! In a nutshell, Daily Lit takes books that are in the public domain and slices them into small chunks which they email to you daily. (You choose the email schedule.) Now you can read the classics, using only a few minutes each day! [...]
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[...] Have you heard of Daily Lit? It is perfect for someone like me who would like to maybe read a couple of things, but lacks the discipline to actually pick up a book and get it done. I saw this on Get Rich Slowly, and went there immediately. You sign up and select a book and they send you a little part of it every day. You read for about five minutes and the next one comes the next day. Public domain books and totally free. I selected Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (205 segments) and Aristotle’s Poetics (19 segments) to start my reading. It is working now, and I feel smarter already. [...]
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[...] come across a lot of sites which are introducing Daily Lit, and it’s a real neat concept that I’ve decided to try, [...]
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Thanks so much for the recommendation! I’ve already read 7 installments of “Sense and Sensibility” since signing up yesterday.
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