Read 15 pages already. Great job!
Ha! That's another vote for the "send me 5 pages" or "send me 10 pages" link in the emails.
Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox
71–80 of 80 posts
Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox
#72I've keep pitching friends on the idea of "Infinite Text" (Infinite Jest, one sentence at a time in text messages). Also, Tolstoy's 'War 'n Pieces'. That said, a page/day via email and using public domain works seem like a better compromise.
Heheh, War and Peace via text message would be commitment!
Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox
#73Love the idea, but maybe have an optional # of pages?
Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox
#74No call-to-action above the fold? Struggling to give you my email address.
Thanks, I only want your email address when you've chosen a book. But yes, you're not guided to that well enough. The UI today is very much a template with some content replaced rather than being designed from the ground up to optimize for the sign up flow. Lots of opportunity to improve that.
Take my email so you can email me a list of books to choose from later. I look at so many new products and libraries every day that I had already forgotten the name of your site.
Since I get most of my reading done on the throne (currently re-reading The Art of Profit by ), I really like the idea of a bite-sized reading app, especially for the non-fiction business books I mainly read.
Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox
#75Kudos on the idea but I don't really see this being useful. Reading one page at a time, you'd just end up losing all context.
I've heard that, but I don't find it to be true. For me at least, one page per day keeps me connected.
Fair enough :) I'm an avid reader and love to just sit down, pick up a book (kindle actually the past few years) and read for some time.
Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox
#76Not affiliated, but I’ve been using an app called Serial Reader [0] which does this using push notifications for some time. It’s quite good and offers more than a page per day for those that want it.
Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox
#77I really like the idea. However, the Chinese quote on this page “千里之行” should be “千里之行，始于足下。“ with the author as “老子”, otherwise, it's incorrect. Just my two cents.
Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox
#78Not affiliated, but I’ve been using an app called Serial Reader [0] which does this using push notifications for some time. It’s quite good and offers more than a page per day for those that want it. [0] https://www.serialreader.org/
Nice -- thanks for that. Very similar approach. The "5 minutes" or "20 pages" instead of one seems to be ringing through pretty clearly. Might make that an option when you subscribe.
Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox
#79I was sitting on a pile of tech book pdf's but realized I simply wasn't going through them (and was wasting my life endlessly refreshing social media feeds). I threw together a web service which serves up a random page from a random book and it has been great for engaging with these books -- just enough of a tease to make you want to dig in further. https://gist.github.com/cellularmitosis/1dabd7587662f8aa7652...
Re: Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
I like that, especially a chunk of pages. SMS/WhatsApp would be a cinch, the APIs look similar to email sending APIs. It's on my backlog, but I never actually really answered the question of why you'd want that? When would you prefer an SMS/WhatsApp message over an email? The biggest complaint folks have is around lack of context for a single page, which would be exacerbated by an even shorter text message?
A Telegram bot please.
>When would you prefer an SMS/WhatsApp message over an email?
Formatting issues with email. And I don't check my mail often, on my phone alerts for chat is instant, email delays.
With telegram, whatever device I'm on works unlike WhatsApp.
I'm currently forwarding emails from you to Telegram but the formatting ish remains. Some lines at the bottom are stripped.
Issue:
It would awesome if books started right at chapter 1. With mobydick, Had to receive 15 emails of testimonials to get up chapter one.