What are the advantages of eBooks? They don't take up space. They don't weigh anything. You can carry lots of them around at once. You can back them up really easily. Take all those away and you have DailyLit, a bizarre advertising-funded website that sends its subscribers public domain e-books in chunks, as email messages or RSS feeds. Those are 2-page chunks, so if you want to read Crime and Punishment, say, it will take you from May 24, 2007 to mid-January 2008. And if you then want to go back and check what happened on page 15 you'll need to dig out your email archives from last year.DailyLit is free and currently boasts 50,000 subscribers. How many people are still going to be reading in six months' time, I wonder?
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