How it works
Three decisions, then it runs itself.
Setting up takes about a minute. After that the book comes to you until it is finished.
Pick a book
The Western canon, from a 14-installment A Midsummer Night’s Dream to a 675-installment Anna Karenina. Change your mind whenever you like.
Choose your hour
Any hour of the day, every day — most readers take the morning, before anything else needs them. Premium adds the days: weekdays only, weekends only, or a set you pick.
Read for two or three minutes
Each installment is complete in itself, and the narrative books open with a line reminding you where you left off. Pause, change your place or stop from any email.
What actually lands in your inbox
A single installment, cut by hand at the book’s own seams — a chapter, a scene, a sonnet, or where a long chapter turns. Never at a word count, never mid-thought. Verse stays verse. Nothing is abridged.
- A one-line recap at the top, on the books that need one
- Your place in the book, in plain numbers
- The edition credited at the foot
Set the pace you will actually keep
One installment a day is the default, and it is free. Premium readers send themselves two or three at a time when they want the book to move, and change it back the same afternoon.
One a day
The default, and free.
Crime and Punishment in eleven months
Two at a timePremium
For a book you want to move.
The same book in six months
Three at a timePremium
A long-weekend pace.
The same book in four months
Times are for Crime and Punishment at 2–3 min an installment. Every book in the library shows its own.
Pick a book and the first one arrives tomorrow morning.
Pick your book — free