NicoleStJ is not currently reading any books.
I’m 24 years old, female, from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since June 05, 2008. My reading interests include All genres, and excluding SF.
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Etc. - Mission Statement?
I’m finally completing books and strangely sooner than it’s paper and hardback competitors. Alas, I am reading books I’ve always wished to read, but never had the chance. The small installments are a much more realistic goal and it prevents me from over-reading to the point of being burnt out. I’ve already read three books in the past 2 months since I’ve started and I think it a benefit for us adults and elders as well.
Etc. - Mission Statement?
It provides our children with an alternative. I think it a pleasantry knowing that the old medium of paper and hard-back books that sit on the shelves collecting dust don’t always indicate that out generation isn’t reading, but rather that they’ve shifted to a more high-tech medium such as text messaging and email to conduct such. Daily Lit has their hands in on this. Imagine if no one took the initiative to bend and flex with the electronic/internet age. I would lose heart, knowing that literature lost its footing to the idiot boxes, hypnotic cubes, radioactive phones, and the internet. Can we not run with the best of them?
Etc. - Mission Statement?
You are not proposing that you’d prefer to pay are you? Skepticism perhaps? Nonetheless, according to the article – "The alarming state of reading in America", the percentage of reading/readers has dropped dramatically from “1984” to the present. For example, the number of seventeen year olds alone has dropped from “31 percent” to a sad “22” (The Writer). Seventy-two percent of high school graduates are deemed deficient in writing skills (The Writer). I know of nothing void of a price tag whether the compensation be tangible or intangible, but if we’re to be given anything for free don’t you believe that it ought to be books/reading and in it’s most general form, an education?
Ideas - request next section via email
I would love to be able to access the reading installments offline. In this case, it would allow the reader to read when they are away from their internet connection, at the pool, on a road trip, at the park as one watches their child play etc. Is this an option? I do agree that is would be a nice feature.