#serial reader

Since Dracula Daily is on pause for a few weeks, now is a good time to promo an app I love. Serial Reader! If you’ve been enjoying reading a classic novel in serialized form, this may be of interest.

Serial Reader is a free app that lets you read books in the public domain, portioned out in chunks that take about 15 minutes to read on average. You get one chunk released to you every day. Their reasoning is that this serialization makes reading classics more exciting - and I think we’ve seen solid evidence of that with the success of Dracula Daily.

You add what book(s) you want to read - there’s tons of categories to browse, or you can search if you have something specific in mind.

I’m reading Pride and Prejudice, and this screen shows my progress so far.

And here’s where I go to see all my issues! Unread issues have an estimated reading time next to them.

I’ve been having a lot of fun with this! There’s also the potential for buddy reads. As far as I know, there’s no official in-app support for that, but all you’d need to do is start your novel on the same day as your friend.

As far as accessibility features go, the font selection includes dyslexic-friendly fonts, and the font size gets pretty darn big (I can’t speak on whether it gets big enough to be considered an accessibility feature, but I would guess so.) It also has different color pallete options.

The paid version has more features, such as the ability to hilight and make notes, but the free version is very usable, and add-free!

I hope you check it out and enjoy more classic lit!