zhanghenglai is not currently reading any books.
I’m 23 years old, male, from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since December 12, 2009. My reading interests include Classics, Science Fiction, and Philosophy.
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Question of the Week - Question of the Week #54: Happy Birthday Ms. Austen
I was about to say a snowglobe with a lighthouse in it, then I realize I had confused Austen with Woolf. I've got nothing.
Ideas - Pages
I think being able to keep track of pages would add more of the familiar aspect of that "reading a book" feel to the DailyLit experience.
A simple adjustment would be formatting the HTML e-mail installments with page breaks. Right now, it looks like one long scroll of paper - just by adding a thin strip of gray space between each page and the page number to the bottom right-hand corner would give it the look of having pages. As for plain text e-mails, a horizontal line could be added to the blocks of text to indicate page breaks.
In general, when people are talking about how far they're into a book, they’d want to say "page 246" instead of "installment 39 of 52" or do math in their head to and use a percentage. Specific pages would be especially helpful for students. But if it's too much work to do it page-by-page, it could be possible to do one round of providing page ranges for installments, then paginate in the second round.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #53: Holiday Classics
I think Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is a great holiday read. If you start the book just as the holiday music start playing on the radio, and read at a leisurely pace, you would probably get to the part of the book where it's Christmas at Hogwarts just as your own Christmas season rolls around. It really adds a fantastic and magical atmosphere to the wintertime.