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• 1. Gionata Famodo  |  November 15th, 2006 at 8:32 pm

  hi, i red about ths site for a joke! and it is fantastic! i want to enjoy u and write the italian version of the stie: ..:: DayLit.it ::..
  oh i forgot… i’m reading the secret garden!
  waiting for u rules! bye!

• 2. Dave Kaufman - Techlife  |  November 17th, 2006 at 11:05 am

  What an amazing service. Everyone who has signed up has thanked me for telling them.

  I had a few ideas:

  - offer daily lit bookclub (exactly as it sounds, everyone is on the same page (pun intended) )
  - offer daily lit “form your own bookclub”, allows a group of people to sign up together and then discuss a book, clubs could be public or private. (something as simple as a group discussion list would work, yahoogroups, googlegroups, mailman, etc)
  - bookclubs “could” have leaders with discussion questions
  - offer reviews by daily lit readers for each title
  - offer a “new title release email” allowing people to be notified of new titles on the site.

  Keep up the great work.

  Dave

• 3. Phyllis Fleischer  |  November 17th, 2006 at 12:15 pm

  What a painless and cool way to read all those classics we never quite got around to finishing!! I learned about you through Daily Candy and have recommended your site to numerous friends and family. I started small with “Daisy Miller” and am deciding what to start next.

  I like the “Opening Lines” experiment and I also think it would be great to have a brief description of each book (authour too? someday. Keep up the good work!

• 4. Julie  |  November 20th, 2006 at 1:41 am

  So I signed up for Veblen. I can’t decided yet if that is ironic or just sad. I am going to go with ironic

• 5. TB  |  November 20th, 2006 at 5:50 pm

  Oh. I read a review of your site on Radar Online. You received half a star so I just wanted to see what all the absurdity was about. And frankly, it just strikes me as sad that you people can’t just pick up a book and finish it on your own in less than six months. That a service needs to be provided for slackers, or people too busy for mind enrichment. God.

• 6. Gerri McNenny  |  November 25th, 2006 at 2:06 pm

  Please include in your FAQs a means for future subscribers to learn how they might subscribe. There is no link to the subscription page. All questions and answers relating to subscribing skirt the issue and omit it as a possibility. This seems counter to the purpose of the FAQs, and it would be wise to revise the FAQs so that individuals going to this site will actually be able to join the listserv instead of being frustrated in finding no means of doing so. Thanks for your attention in this matter.

• 7. Dave Chong  |  November 29th, 2006 at 9:49 pm

  Do you have plans for any creative commons stuff?
  It’d be nice to see something more recent.

• 8. Albert  |  December 4th, 2006 at 3:11 pm

  We are working on adding more recent content. Should have some titles up early next year.

• 9. Dave Chong  |  December 5th, 2006 at 6:58 pm

  Apologies, I’m not sure where the most appropriate place to make requests would be, but if you could see your way to adding the works of Jacques Futrelle it’d be much appreciated.

  http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/f#a3763

• 10. ken  |  December 13th, 2006 at 10:36 am

  Hi. I, too, cannot find the request page. I would love it if you guys added Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning,” and some of his other works.

• 11. angela  |  December 28th, 2006 at 11:01 am

  I think this is a great idea! Found you through yahoo daily wire this morning. I don’t see it as lazy, I do read on my own, but it’s something nice to have in your email, and read during downtime at work, or to read during a commute. Keep up the great work!

• 12. Joez  |  December 31st, 2006 at 7:25 pm

  Would love to see the content be deliverable via rss. I use my rss reader far more than email

• 13. John Lynn  |  January 1st, 2007 at 2:01 am

  My brother was asking for a service just like this. It’s great that you have the Bible. My brother wanted this for The Book of Mormon. Mormons are taught to read the Book of Mormon daily and so this type of service is exactly what they could use.

  I bet if you contact http://www.lds.org then you could probably get access to all of the text for The Book of Mormon. Let me know if you do it and I’ll promote it on a bunch of my blogs.

• 14. Juan Antonio  |  January 1st, 2007 at 11:35 am

  Another suggestion, I find hard to read one of the books I subscribed (utopia) because paragraphs are only separated by a single line break. Visually this does not give a clue of where different paragraphs begin and end, it just looks like a huge, boring block of text. Leaving an extra empty line between paragraphs would greatly improve readability.

• 15. John Nilsson  |  January 4th, 2007 at 2:01 pm

  That bookclub sounded like a really great idea. I’ve been looking for a way to have an online bookclub. Using this service would be great.

• 16. John Walker  |  January 6th, 2007 at 9:43 pm

  -Hi:
  Read about you guys in the Vancouver Sun this AM-Jan 7.
  I was on it quicker than a fly on–oh never mind.

  Would like to see some mysticism content-the only one you have is Varieties of Religious Experience-and I wouldn’t mind some kind of user fee at all. It would be nice to see Jane Roberts’ books-she has a Rx Saturn on her natal ascendant. A Rx planet on an angle is an open doorway to the other side.

• 17. Dave Kaufman - Techlife  |  January 8th, 2007 at 11:01 pm

  @John Nilsson

  I have been thinking that maybe one way to do it would be to setup a group site somewhere, since there are so many web2.0 and web 1.0 services that could do this for us. Heck if more people want it, I will host at book club.

  In fact I was jogged about this comment today from a friend and I wrote about it in my syndicatd column. But I am now going to add a bookclub sign up. Visit this article if you are interested. I will handle all the “techie” stuff and we can just get down to the first online book club.

• 18. Dave Kaufman - Techlife  |  January 8th, 2007 at 11:02 pm

  Ooops…here’s the link to visit for the virtual bookclub.

  http://www.dkworldwide.com/techlife/archives/2007/01/08/daily-lit-loved-before-it-was-blogged/trackback/

• 19. Rashid  |  January 9th, 2007 at 11:59 am

  Can we contribute by adding books on this site? if yes then what would be the procedure?

• 20. Reham  |  January 12th, 2007 at 5:01 pm

  this site is extra wonderful, ireally thnk my friend who told me about u, it’s not only for those who can’t find time to read books, it’s much easier to recieve a novel, print it on ur own & WOW u’ve got the book u wanted.
  but unfortunately i couldn’t find any novels for Anthony Hope, the author of The Prisoner Of Zenda. could u plz add his writings???
  thanx a lot.

• 21. pelón  |  January 15th, 2007 at 10:57 pm

  Love the idea of a book club. Of course it would be easy for someone else to set something up and use this service, but it would be much better located here.

  Idea

  Follow the title of any book with a number indicating how many people are interested in forming a group, or if the group has already begun, the number of people and how far along they are for people who want to join late.

  I’m always trying to complete those reading lists of books I should have read but didn’t. First on my list is Alcott so I’m reading Little Women. The problem with movies of classic novels is that you don’t feel like you need to read the book.

  Thanks so much!

• 22. pelón  |  January 15th, 2007 at 11:09 pm

  Suggestion

  I am subscribed to Little Women and have downloaded it to my PDA from Gutenberg for when the time and place is right for a good read and I’m not connected to the internet. It would be nice if on the management page one could skip ahead a number of mailings.

  I’m not sure how the reader would gage how much to skip ahead. Maybe you could offer a list of the first lines of each mailing.

  Again, thanks!

• 23. jazzabelle  |  January 16th, 2007 at 9:48 am

  hey i’d like books by tamora pierce, and other fantasy writers. That would rock it u guys could do that! or gals if they work on the site too. Also i think a club would rock!

• 24. Dave Kaufman - Techlife  |  January 16th, 2007 at 9:57 am

  @pelon - Great idea on the way a club should be set up with Daily Lit. I am not sure they are going to.

  @jazzabelle - thanks for the reply about the bookclub.

  I am still piecing it together assuming no Daily Lit support.

• 25. David H  |  January 16th, 2007 at 5:36 pm

  I will set aside the praises you will undoubtedly receive from myself and many others, for I have a suggestion.

  A small web design tweak, that when I click on something like ‘get next fragment immediately’ link from a Daily Lit email, I get a page for confirmation on your website, but out of the links, I have no way of getting to your main site without manually changing the url address bar and resubmitting the url.

  Bad web design, one small tweak for the said page as well as similar ones, will be rewarded with slight increase of repeat traffic.

  In my instance I wanted to subscribe to another book that my current book recommended. Probably would have bought it, too.

• 26. Albert  |  January 18th, 2007 at 9:09 pm

  Bookclubs are coming soon! First we will be rolling out forums (within the next 10 days) allowing readers to discuss authors, books etc. Bookclubs will come shortly after that and will make use of the forums. We are still finalizing how bookclubs will work and appreciate the many good suggestions that have been made here.

• 27. Albert  |  January 18th, 2007 at 9:12 pm

  Forgot to mention that there will also be a significantly improved design, including a page header that always lets you go straight to the home page.

• 28. Kevin  |  January 19th, 2007 at 8:38 am

  How about a ‘recommended reading’ or top 10 section.

• 29. Gabby  |  January 31st, 2007 at 8:11 am

  Are you going to be offering books in foreign languages? Or do such sites exist? In my case, I’m interested in French. It would be cool to get some Jules Verne in the original in my email.

• 30. maureen whitelaw  |  February 1st, 2007 at 6:43 pm

  I want to place articles and short stories.

• 31. Albert  |  February 3rd, 2007 at 7:30 pm

  Gabby — we will definitely be adding foreign language books. We are planning on books in German, French, Spanish and Italian. We just found someone to help with preparing French books.

• 32. Michelle Barnhart  |  March 20th, 2007 at 2:57 pm

  What a great site! Would I have ever picked up a hard copy of Daisy Miller and taken the time to read it? Probably not. But taking it bit by bit didn’t seem so daunting.

  I especially like the “get the next installment immediately” feature. I got caught up in the book and kept clicking away for the next snippet!

  One thing that I think would be an improvement would be to have both the title AND the author at the top of each segment. Here I’ve just read an entire book, and I’d like to recommend it to others, but I’m not sure who wrote it!

  I have told many friends about you; one is now reading a segment a day aloud to her kids!

  Thank you for making books more accessible to everybody! Who knows…perhaps in the future, scholars will rank Daily Lit right up there with the printing press for its literary importance!

• 33. Christine Grillo  |  March 30th, 2007 at 8:42 am

  Currently I am reading Chekhov’s “Lady with the Dog and Other Stories.” I have one simple suggestion for your treatment of story collections. It would be useful to the reading if you could label each installment as either “beginning,” “continued,” or “end.” (You already label installments as “continued.”) I’ve found that sometimes I read the end of a story and I have no idea that it’s ended, and then when the next installment comes with a new story, I discover that what I read two days earlier was the end of the previous story.

• 34. Eric Vertein  |  May 23rd, 2007 at 3:43 pm

  Is this where you post corrections to texts?

  Correction: Installment 1 of Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense”
  First para after heading: “OF THE ORIGIN AND DESIGN OF GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL. WITH CONCISE REMARKS ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION”

  second full sentence: (missing word in BOLD) “Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections…”

• 35. Albert  |  May 24th, 2007 at 6:35 am

  Thanks for pointing it out — we have corrected it. Instead of posting, you can also email corrections to support.

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