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Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

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Post by marai2 »

I actually implemented something like this for my ownself. I have a suggestion that you may want to try out as an experiment. Somehow give the user the ability to choose when to receive the next update (and maybe even how much). So for example I know I'm going to be busy the next couple of days but I want to keep the continuity, so maybe I can schedule to have only a couple of paragraphs sent to me. Or I know I'm going to be bored out of my mind this weekend I can schedule a page sent to me every 4 hours.

In other words if you can add this little gamification aspect and the idea that I have or can have more active control over what's delivered to me, I suspect you'll have better engagement. For me after the novelty of implementing my own a-page-a-day solution wore off and when I missed a few days then it just seemed like a chore to catch up with my missed reading.

Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

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Post by steven_pack »

marai2 wrote: post #4

I actually implemented something like this for my ownself. I have a suggestion that you may want to try out as an experiment. Somehow give the user the ability to choose when to receive the next update (and maybe even how much). So for example I know I'm going to be busy the next couple of days but I want to keep the continuity, so maybe I can schedule to have only a couple of paragraphs sent to me. Or I know I'm goi…

Thanks for the suggestion! Glad to know I wasn't the only one that a page a day appealed to! If you sign up, the footer of each email does actually have: - Request another page - Manage - Unsubscribe

And under Manage, you can pause, skip ahead or back etc. I decided to hold off on any features until I saw if folks actually enjoyed consuming content this way.

Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

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Post by _threads »

steven_pack wrote: post #5
marai2 wrote: post #4

I actually implemented something like this for my ownself. I have a suggestion that you may want to try out as an experiment. Somehow give the user the ability to choose when to receive the next update (and maybe even how much). So for example I know I'm going to be busy the next couple of days but I want to keep the continuity, so maybe I can schedule to have only a couple of paragraphs sent to me. Or I know I'm goi…

Thanks for the suggestion! Glad to know I wasn't the only one that a page a day appealed to! If you sign up, the footer of each email does actually have: - Request another page - Manage - Unsubscribe And under Manage, you can pause, skip ahead or back etc. I decided to hold off on any features until I saw if folks actually enjoyed consuming content this way.

I think just basic reply commands might be cool like : « next », « next 3 » to get 3 pages at once ... I wanted to do this with with sms or messenger or WhatsApp bots

Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

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Post by lawlorino »

This looks pretty cool, congratulations! I was wondering how you set up your email server to get around the automatic filtering a lot of email providers use on the user end. For example, I think Gmail automatically filters anything from a known AWS IP address.
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