Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - Crack? Seriously? - posted 5 months ago

Definitely many echos of BNW here. Will be interesting to see where it goes.

Etc. - question - posted last year

These are on the options page for each subscription (which you reach via "More" from the "Manage your subscriptions" page). Click on the "Advanced" link to see them.

Bugs - Book "1632" missing quotation marks! - posted last year

Sorry -- that's supposed to have quotation marks. We'll look into it.

Bugs - Fitzgerald's Tales of Jazz Age - LADEN WITH ERRORS! help! - posted last year

We have reviewed -- not read -- the remaining installments and corrected a few more mistakes. Please let us know if you find additional ones. As for layout, the plain text emails are limited in what can be achieved, but have the big advantage of displaying on the largest number of devices (e.g. smartphones).

Ideas - Make suspend/resume flow more natural - posted last year

Part of the idea behind DailyLit is that it provides a bit of a "nudge" to keep going, but if enough folks chime in here we may enable a "send manually" functionality.

Ideas - Book queue - posted last year

Almost there. The feature is built and we are testing it. Definitely will roll it out before the end of the year. Thanks for giving us a nudge!

Bugs - Extra installments - posted last year

We will look into it right away. There have been no reported problems from others.

Bugs - Changing timezone in subscription options goes wrong - posted last year

You are getting the correct timezone, it's just showing you different cities. We decided to show more cities for each timezone to make it easier to determine the correct timezone but we only store the actual timezone. So wherever there is more than one line for the same timezone we display the last line.

Ideas - Customizable BookRoll - posted last year

I think the problem is an interaction with the styles from the "widgetizer" that you are using. Is there a way you can turn that off for just the book roll? If not or if that does not solve the issue we can try to dig a bit deeper. I suggest we continue discussion via email. Please use support [at] dailylit [dot] com.

Ideas - Tag for Later - posted last year

Coming soon. We are working on a release with reviews, ratings and book lists. There will be a one-click "add to reading list" feature.

Book Requests - Confederacy of Dunces - posted last year

Thanks for the suggestion. Pretty sure that Confederacy is still copyrighted. We will need to contact the publisher / rights holder to find out whether we can make it available.

Ideas - Community help in adding books - posted last year

Definitely something we have on the drawing board. We have had a bunch of people volunteer but have not yet built a system for parceling out the work and keeping track of what has been reviewed (and making sure we don't wind up with copyright violations).

Help - Submitting? - posted last year

Please contact publisher [at] dailylit [dot] com.

Book Requests - What about Tolkien (fame of LOTR) - posted last year

Tolkien's works are all still copyrighted. Even though the books read like they might be from a much earlier time they were all published in the mid 20th century. Tolkien died in 1973.

Don Quixote - Terrible translation - posted last year

That's already available as Don Quijote I and II. Just search for "Don" and you will find it.

Book Requests - More books on Hercule Poirot - posted last year

All good suggestions. We'll look into their availability.

Cory Doctorow - Someone comes to town? - posted last year

Could have sworn we included it in the most recent batch but clearly not. We'll add it to the queue.

Book Requests - Accelerando - posted last year

Finally! Accelerando is now available on DailyLit thanks to Charlie Stross.

Ideas - Option for Chapters - posted last year

We don't go by chapters (since the length of chapter varies so widely across books), but you can adjust the length of installments as described in the FAQ.

Ideas - How to suggest a title/author - posted last year

For right now the best way to make suggestions is in the "Book Requests" forum. You can find it by clicking on the "See all active other forums" link (inside the orange bar).

Ideas - Private content - posted last year

We have had a couple of requests for this. We are really focused on the reading experience for texts that we upload. We are also concerned about the copyright issues that might arise from private uploads. So we are unlikely to offer this feature any time soon. Sorry!

Bugs - Several Links broken in Opera - posted last year

Sorry about that! There appears to be a CSS issue with the pagination links that we will fix shortly, but the "Start New Topic" link is working for us in Opera 9.22 -- which version are you using?

Book Requests - Germinal? - posted last year

We can add it to our queue. Are you looking for an English translation or the French original?

Help - Subscriptions and Publishers - posted last year

Absolutely. Please contact us via email at info [at] dailylit [dot] com.

Help - Heart of Darkness RSS Feed - posted last year

Vince -

Sorry to hear it. I checked and this feed was created quite some time ago. Did it never have any items in it or is this a recent problem?

Best,
Albert

Adventure - Adventure Fans - posted last year

You can now automatically have longer emails sent to you if you want to make faster progress. Check the FAQ which describes how to set this option for a subscription.

Help - Subscribe for Mysterious Affair At Styles - posted last year

Please try again. If you continue to have problems, please contact support by email.

Help - RSS Feed dies on part 11 - posted last year

OK. Problem has been fixed. You need to refresh the browser. If you can't get the feed to reload, first try holding down the "Shift" key while you click on the reload button. If that doesn't work, you need to go to tools -> Internet Options. Then on the "General" tab under "Browsing History" click on "Delete ..." -- then in the "Delete Browsing History" window under "Delete Temporary Internet Files" click on "Delete files ..." This will force a reload of the feed.

Help - RSS Feed dies on part 11 - posted last year

Sorry to hear it. We are investigating. We have tested the feed in FeedDemon and it works fine there, but it does seem to hang in IE7. More shortly.

Help - whole? - posted last year

Thanks for asking. The books are unabridged. As for errors, we have not had many and the ones that readers find we try to fix right away.

Ideas - Any plans to include poems? - posted last year

There is already a fair bit of poetry available, including Keats. Easiest to find if you browse by category.

Ideas - Comics? - posted last year

We will offer comics and manga, but need to roll out HTML email first.

Great Expectations - great expectations,a fantastic novel - posted last year

We are working on the ability to let you customize the size of installments. In the meantime, it's fairly easy to click the "send the next installment" link to speed things up.

Book Requests - Add 'Prince, The' to Management category - posted last year

Interesting suggestion. We have gone ahead and added it to the management category.

Dracula - From Dracula to Voldemort - posted last year

Just finished Dracula on DailyLit. One of the pleasures in reading classics is noticing their echoes in more recent works. Case in point, Harry Potter, which I have been reading to my son at night. In "Order of the Phoenix," the crucial twist in the plot arises from a mental link between Voldemort and Harry that might well be based on a similar link between the Count and Mina.

Frankenstein - Science fiction? - posted last year

Good point. We have added it to the science fiction category and also changed it from thriller to horror.

Bugs - One profile bugs and two feature request - posted last year

Woops! Please try again. Deployed a new version last night and a bug had crept in.

Bugs - RSS send next fragment - posted last year

The "send next immediately" option should appear at the end of each installment as a link (together with several other options). If you can't find them please let us know which reader you are using.

Bugs - Swiss Family Robinson Amazon URL Wrong - posted last year

Oooops! Many thanks for pointing this out -- should be fixed now.

Ideas - A listing of recently added titles - posted last year

A first version of this is now available. Whenever you see a list of books you can now sort them by how recently they were added to DailyLit. Each category list now also has an RSS feed available, so that you can follow which books have been added to a category.

Help - Introduction - posted last year

Greg - Have you tried refreshing your browser? The old picture will be cached locally.

Book Requests - Ira Levin - posted last year

Thanks for the suggestion. Levin wrote in the 1960s and 70s so definitely still copyrighted. We are in the process of obtaining rights for certain books and will add this to the list.

The Devil's Dictionary - Wrong category - posted last year

Thanks. We changed the category from "Horror" to "Satire" (and thanks also for the link -- we'll add it to the queue).

Help - How Many? - posted last year

Yes you can. We currently limit the number of active subscriptions to three.

Ideas - RSS feeds - posted last year

That's a great suggestion and we have added it to the todo list.

Help - I started a book but I don't like it, how do I remove it? - posted last year

Apologies -- this is a much requested feature and we have it on the to do list.

Bugs - Send next fragment immediately? - posted last year

This is likely to be a refresh bug. When you are on the page that says 101 sent, try refreshing your browser (try also with the shift key pressed). Btw, which browser are you using on which operating system? That would help us track down this bug.

Bugs - Gmail is acting up - posted last year

There has been no change on our side. Please let us know if this continues tomorrow. Hopefully it's just a temporary hickup. Any other gmail users experiencing similar problems?

Classics - Split this category? - posted last year

Do you mean for the purpose of more easily finding books or so that there could be a separate forum?

Book Requests - Accelerando - posted last year

Looking into it. We will release creative commons support this weekend (link to the license in each email). Stay tuned.

Book Requests - Invisible! - posted last year

Thanks for your request. Invisible Man is copyrighted (published in 1952). We will inquire with the publisher about obtaining the rights to distribute it as a paid subscription, but this is likely to take some time.

Ideas - A listing of recently added titles - posted last year

Thanks -- we'll be adding that shortly (browse titles by when they were added).

Etc. - QUESTION - posted last year

Sorry -- it has not disappeared, but we clearly need to rework how the forums are organized. In order to find the "Book Requests" forum, you need to first click on the "Other Forums" link on the forums page.

Ideas - Changing Email Address - posted last year

Changing the email address is high on our todo list. In the meantime, simply email support [at] dailylit [dot] com with your old and new addresses and we will take care of it for you.

Help - Genres of Interest (profile) - posted last year

Good catch. We will include better instructions. You can use Quotes to add genres with a space, e.g. "Science Fiction".

Book Requests - Introduction - posted last year

The name of the forum says it all.

Bugs - Introduction - posted last year

If you find something that's not working, please post it on this forum. Please look at all existing topics to make sure that it has not already been reported. Thanks.