NEW YORK (Reuters) - Never had time to read "Moby Dick" and want something weightier than spam to read on your Blackberry on the way to work?
A new Web site is offering to send classic books in bite-size installments to your handheld device or e-mail every morning before you go to work, or whenever you want, for free.
The e-mails from www.dailylit.com are designed to be read in under five minutes.
Sounds like a fun idea--for other people. For me, a daily five-minute reading from a really good book would be like Chinese water torture.
6 comments:
LOL! I'm with you Brenda. I can't count the number of times I've stayed up reading all night. There are just some books that I HAVE to know the ending of before I can close my eyes.
And five minutes?? That's not even enough time to get into the story.
I've been known to buy all the books in a series... waiting for them to come out... before starting to read. I do that with Nora when she releases her trilogies every year.
I can't imagine getting snippets like that. Though, our society does have a short attention span as a rule, so this may be the wave of the future.
Isn't that sad?
I've always read books in little bites..........it's called keeping a book on the back of the toilet.
Let's see, at that rate and font size how long would it take to read Moby Dick?
Monday's reading:
Call
Tuesday's reading:
me
Wednesday's reading:
Ishmael.
Subscription cancelled on Thursday.
ROTFLOL! Brenda, you slay me!
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