Fragmentary Reading
August 19th, 2007
A while ago I found a link to Dailyliy on some blog, likely Lifehacker. It’s a site that emails you up to three books at a time in short daily doses. Needless to say, they don’t have the current best sellers, but if you’re looking for… a drip feed of Sherlock Holmes, it has what you’re after. You can also get a bunch of the old Russian classics, spread over 500+ emails or rss entries. I don’t know what translation they use, so I’m not sure I’d go for that. But currently I’m getting Philoctetes, The Picture of Dorian Grey (which originally came out as a serial, thought probably not in 95 parts), and a collection of ghost stories.
Not a bad way to get a little reading done on the sly at work.
Edit: It appears that there is no longer a three book cap.



August 20th, 2007 at 6:13 am
Um. Did you look at the top ten list of authors? Cory Doctorow comes in at number 9, edging out Jules Verne.
…I, um…what?
August 20th, 2007 at 7:22 am
They also have one of Lessig’s free thought manifestos. I’m going to have to check that one out soon.