If you spend hours each day on email but can't find the time to read a book DailyLit (www.dailylit.com) is for you. It provides a service to help read classic books by making them part of your daily routine of reading emails.
Daily Lit can send you a bite-sized chunk of a novel to your Inbox every day. Select a "free" book that appeals to you, then, every day or two, DailyLit sends you via e-mail a section from your choice. When you find a book at DailyLit, via Title, Author, or Category, you also get to know how many parts you'll be subscribing to, so you can get an idea of how long it would take to finish the book. The messages brought into your Inbox by DailyLit aren't too long, readable in five minutes. For impatient readers caught up in the plot of Sherlock Holmes DailyLit does allow more than five minutes reading a day. You have the option to get the next part immediately.
The out of copyright classic titles offered by DailyLit would please any book lover. Classics like Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days can be read in 82 parts, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina in 430 parts, War and Peace in 675 parts, The Count of Monte Cristo in 581 parts, Don Quixote in 448 parts, Wuthering Heights in 145 parts and Crime and Punishment - more than 240 segments! The top ten authors whose books are offered at DailyLit include Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alexandre Dumas, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Herman Melville, Cory Doctorow and Jules Verne. The titles to choose from include The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The Devil's Dictionary, War of the Worlds, Pride and Prejudice, Gulliver's Travels, Moby Dick, The Art of War by Sun Tzu and hundreds more. Recently added are a lot of poetry including works by Thomas Hardy, William Blake, Christina Rosetti, Edna St. Vincent Millay and others.
DailyLit crossed two milestones recently, over 500 titles available and over 100,000 subscriptions! In response to reader requests a couple of new features are now provided. These include - Voracious readers can now receive longer emails or longer feed updates; Idiosyncratic readers can now choose any combination of days (e.g. only Wednesdays, or Monday and Thursday); Migrating readers can now change their email address; and waiting readers can now find out which books have been added via RSS. DailyLit now offers Return Path's Sender Score Certified Program. This means that DailyLit messages are less likely to be mistaken for spam. If you do not wish to give out your email address you can subscribe to DailyLit service via RSS. DailyLit also offers to send classic books in bite-size installments to your handheld device, however, you may have to check this out with your service provider.
DailyLit also features best-selling and/or well-reviewed contemporary titles. As these titles are copyrighted a fee would be required to be paid. Most of these titles have free sample installments so you can first decide whether you like a book — you only pay if you want to continue reading. These titles include motherhood (e.g., Smotherhood), humour (e.g., Gullible's Travels), science fiction (e.g., In Fury Born), war (e.g., From Baghdad with Love), romance (e.g., Heiress) and others. DailyLit's service to provide access to public domain and creative commons titles will continue to remain free.
