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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Books / Teh Internets Free Books in Your Inbox

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:38 PM

DailyLit just announced that they're going free. DailyLit provides literature in small chunks, via either e-mail or RSS feed. For instance, on this page, you can receive The Count of Monte Cristo in 579 daily installments in your inbox every weekday at 3:20 pm.

Here is the list of sci-fi novels available via DailyLit. Here are the poetry classics you should've read in high school (I just signed up for an Edna St. Vincent Millay book of poems for a little refresher class.) Literature, of course, has a long history of serialization, and I think DailyLit is a great way to disseminate literature. Now that it's free, I can recommend it wholeheartedly.

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Dang, it's all public domain/creative commons stuff, which means it's all old or available free elsewhere. :-/ I guess interesting in theory, but it's not like you could get a grounding in sci-fi via this.

Posted by supergp on December 1, 2009 at 4:52 PM

I [heart] Paul Constant! Thanks!

Posted by Suz on December 1, 2009 at 5:39 PM

thank you for posting the link!

Posted by jayme on December 1, 2009 at 7:12 PM

I'm disappointed that most of it is by Cory Doctorow, but its a good idea and maybe they'll get more content if it gets more popular.

Posted by vitaminwater on December 1, 2009 at 8:02 PM

You could always go to Project Gutenberg which has many more books, though not as bite size or in daily installments.

Posted by prompt on December 1, 2009 at 9:25 PM

Or as well-formatted. Thanks for the link, Paul! And as for the doubters: there's something to be said for getting enormous tomes like "The Brothers Karamazov" and "War and Peace" in smaller chunks (say, a chapter you can read on your phone). Not sure it will work with Ulysses, necessarily, but we've already got a web comic for that, so it's all good.
Again, thank you Paul (and DailyLit).

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