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Tigerlily
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 Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 2:02 pm Post subject: Daily Lit - books sent in instalments to your inbox |
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http://www.dailylit.com/
I've registered with Daily Lit where you choose for instalments of a book to be sent to your inbox each day (or just weekdays if you prefer). Many of the books will be sent free of charge and you can link your Daily Lit profile to your Twitter profile so others can see what you're reading.
Haven't done anything like this before so should be interesting. I think you're supposed to be sent 15 mins' worth of reading each day.
There seem to be lots of books to choose from, lots of non-fiction too. You can 'gift' books too. Not sure how exactly! You can also sign up to Daily Lit's Big Read in affiliation with Etsy's Book Club. You read the chosen book, 5 mins each day, and discuss it with other readers. The chosen book at the mo is Thoreau's Walden.
Sounds addictive!!
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| Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Hi there,
I wanted to tell you that I just started reading 1632 on DailyLit.
DailyLit lets you read entire books in short installments sent to you by email or RSS. DailyLit also has discussion forums so if you start reading 1632 too, we can talk about it there.
http://www.dailylit.com/forums/book/1632
I hope you'll read with me. If you'd like to get started, just click on the link below.
http://www.dailylit.com/books/1632 |
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Lauzc
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Karen
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| Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 7:47 am Post subject: |
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| Thank you for the link Glynis. I've signed up for The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad and had my first installement this morning. |
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blueflower
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| Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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I signed up last night and got Benjamin Button and got the first installment, then requested the next and the next ........got the last two this morning!
Have now signed up for Life of a Slave Girl.
Do I add these to Which books came into your home today?  |
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wonderlake
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| Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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| blueflower wrote: | I signed up last night and got Benjamin Button and got the first installment, then requested the next and the next ........got the last two this morning!
Have now signed up for Life of a Slave Girl.
Do I add these to Which books came into your home today? |
Ooh they have Benjamin Button on there - think I'll be signing up for that too 
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wonderlake
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| Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 8:08 am Post subject: |
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And Benjamin Button is only 11 instalments 
When I first signed up to Dailylit I chose to receive Arabian Nights... 600+ instalments ! The novelty soon wore off... receiving it daily would take me 2yrs + to complete !!
I wish you could browse the books based on their length :S[/b]
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Lauzc
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| Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 8:44 am Post subject: |
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I've requested THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON and LITTLE WOMEN.
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Wow 600 instalments 
I've signed up for Walden by Thoreau and created a 'to read' list to remind me of the classics I'd like to read at some point.
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