One of my favourite pastimes is to read, whether it be fictional or factual, I feel there is no better way to imagine a story than picturing it in your own way. That said, these days I hardly have the time to read a book and when I do, I can only grab a few chapters before I’m either fighting sleep or needing to go somewhere or do something.
DailyLit is a website that tries to get you back in the habit of reading but does so in a way that is pretty novel. Books are offered via either email or RSS feed, in convenient small messages that take less than five minutes to read.
Because the content is delivered via email and RSS, this makes it easy to read not only on your computer, it can be viewed on devices such as your iPhone and Blackberry.
Currently the website offers over 1400 books for visitors to read, 800 of which are free. Once you have decided on the book your wish to read, you can have the content delivered to you in different ways with specified factors you determine on the books dedicated page.
These factors include determining how many instalments you wish to receive over your preferred delivery platform or how frequently you wish to receive these instalments. The user can specify what days they wish to receive the instalments and even a time when they should be delivered, meaning you could have them specifically delivered for when you are on your journey to and from work.
If you are wondering how long it will take you to read a book using this method, the DailyLit website offers this example:
I am currently reading Dracula, which has 187 instalments and I am receiving instalments on weekdays, i.e. 5 days/week. So at most it will take me 187/5 = 37 weeks. But when I am on the train or waiting, I often read more than one instalment, so I usually wind up reading about 10 instalments/week. This means I will finish Dracula in about 19 weeks or 5 months.
Conclusion
Having small accessible chunks of books will allow you to fit reading your book into the free time you have when travelling or even waking up in the morning. With the addition of more and more paid books, aswell as free editions, there won’t be a book you can’t enjoy.
