I LOVE BOOKS!

“I LOVE BOOKS!”

This is why I stan Callum, okay?

sometimes i forget how reading is just. marvelous. just an absolutely fucking endlessly joyful activity. i’ll go about my life and not read one single book for months and be like why am i morose! why am i so apathetic! what is missing here!!!! and try to look for whatever it is that is lacking and never find it anywhere and i get so tired and sad and angry, and then i’m finally like i’m gonna stop everything for a couple days and read a really good book bc i don’t care about anything else. and suddenly i get motivated to work bc i know i’ll read when i’m on break. i get more creative. i want to watercolor again and bust out the shameful fabric stash with all my unfinished sewing projects. god even my dreams get more vivid!! what the fuck! and i’m like here is the magic i was looking for, why did i ever think i was going to find it anywhere else. it was always here!!!

I read somewhere that kirishima can draw so I did something cute

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!

Riza, Falman and Breda have created their own book club. Every two weeks they meet during lunch to discuss the book they had previously agreed to read, and decide on the next one, out of a list of Sheska’s recommendations.