Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:51:47 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,<wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Another new way to read books
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> ekovar at panix.com 10/2/2006 2:00:08 PM >>>
>A friend sent:
>
>" - by email!
>
>http://www.dailylit.com/
>
>It takes books and breaks them into pieces that can be read in 5
>minutes or so, then sends them to you by email every day (or more
>often, if you choose). War and Peace is 675 parts, so if you choose
>only to read one part per weekday, you can finish it off in just 135
>weeks, or slightly more than 2.5 years."
>
>Okay, very few people here may be interested in that.  In fact, most
>of the
>books that are up thus far are fairly 'literary'.  But they have the
>complete Edgar Allan Poe, several by H.G. Wells, a Shakespeare play
>I've
>never read, and a lot of other things.  Thus far there doesn't seem to

>be a
>way to suggest books, link them with Gutenberg, or various other
>ways of
>adding to the collection.  Still, getting a book in sections rather
than
>trying to read it all online or print it out has a certain appeal.

1976 or so... I was working at the B. Dalton at Springfield Mall.
Radio in the back room was tuned to WGTB which was doing a reading,
about 30 minutes or so, each day of Moby Dick.  I don't think I heard
the end, 'cause the Jesuits pulled the plug on the station due to,
amongst other things, the birth control PSAs.

And I sem to recall a certain Dr Progresso spinning those vinyl
disks...

mjw