Daily Lit
Sat/12/08 02:36 Filed in: Books/Comics
Is your New Year's resolution to read more books? I've been looking at a lot of free books online, either on the web or downloadable PDF's, but the problem has always been the limitations of long period reading either in a PDF reader or browser. Daily Lit solves this problem. Daily Lit e-mails you a small chunk of a book every day. You can also set the book up as an RSS feed with a new bit every day. There are over 800 free books, most of them are available at most of the other free book sites. You can even buy some books for cheap. You can set-up different ways to read the books and read many at the same time. Daily Lit has even published their own books by reformatting Wikipedia.
I'm already a super micro-information consumer, devouring 150 or so websites in RSS everyday. So this makes reading a full book pretty digestible. I started with Cory Doctrow's Little Brother. All of Cory's books are free on the internet. This book is divided up into 139 daily segments. I've already read a few days worth and the stopping points, so far, seem pretty natural. I like it because I was looking for a better way to read on my itouch and this way has been painless and free. Plus, they've even expanded to delivering books via Twitter. That seems like a pretty tiny chunk everyday.
I'm already a super micro-information consumer, devouring 150 or so websites in RSS everyday. So this makes reading a full book pretty digestible. I started with Cory Doctrow's Little Brother. All of Cory's books are free on the internet. This book is divided up into 139 daily segments. I've already read a few days worth and the stopping points, so far, seem pretty natural. I like it because I was looking for a better way to read on my itouch and this way has been painless and free. Plus, they've even expanded to delivering books via Twitter. That seems like a pretty tiny chunk everyday.