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

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

#11
I don't get what's the point on this. In my opinion a single page has barely content enough to develop anything interesting and because of it, it could be quite difficult to bring the context of the previous page every day you read a new one. I can't see how one can get hooked to read a book this way.

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

#12
Anyone who enjoys this might enjoy an email newsletter I run, Thinking About Things [1], which sends readers a single interesting and thought-provoking link every morning. It's a similar idea - small, manageable parts of ideas for people who are too busy to pursue idea discovery full-time.

[1] thinking-about-things.com

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

#13

I don't get what's the point on this. In my opinion a single page has barely content enough to develop anything interesting and because of it, it could be quite difficult to bring the context of the previous page every day you read a new one. I can't see how one can get hooked to read a book this way.

The point is people will sign up, see extra activity in their inbox and get some endorphins from that sweet illusion of productivity.

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

#20
Implement this as an android app instead of email. Have a system where I can open a random page of a book in a genre as many times as I want for free, and I can continue reading from that page, but if I read through x continuous pages I have automatically bought the book (or a chapter of it) and it goes in my library.
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