Serial Reader Overview
What is Serial Reader?
Serial Reader is an app that allows users to read classic literature in daily bite-sized bits. With over 850 classic books to choose from, users receive a new issue from the book every day, which can be read in 20 minutes or less. The app also offers customization options, syncs reading progress to Goodreads, and allows users to earn badges and track reading streaks. With a one-time upgrade, users can read tomorrow's issue early, sync reading across multiple devices, save quotes and notes, save books to read later, pause delivery of new issues, and pick specific delivery days and hours for new issues.
Features
- Read hundreds of popular classic books for free
- Customize with a variety of themes and fonts
- Automatically serialize your own EPUB books (beta)
- Sync your reading progress to Goodreads
- Sync quotes & notes to Readwise
- Easily lookup words in the dictionary & Wikipedia
- Earn fun badges and track your reading streaks
- Read tomorrow's issue early (with upgrade)
- Sync your reading across multiple devices (with upgrade)
- Save quotes & notes while reading (with upgrade)
- Save books to read later (with upgrade)
- Pause delivery of new issues (with upgrade)
- Pick specific delivery days and hours for new issues (with upgrade)
- More than 850 books available with new titles added each week
- Books categorized by genre, including American Lit, Adventure, Romance, Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Biography, Children's, Fantasy, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Westerns, and Religion
- Popular books available include Pride and Prejudice, A Tale of Two Cities, The Great Gatsby, War & Peace, Moby-Dick, Wuthering Heights, Dracula, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Peter Pan, The Republic, and The Quran.
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Product Details and Description of
Read classic books in daily bite-sized bits! Serial Reader helps you fit classic literature into your busy life. Choose from more than 850 classic books and receive a new issue from the book every day. Each issue can be read in 20 minutes or less. Read the best classic books in your spare time! "For those who are intimidated by thick, leather-bound tomes, Serial Reader is a good way to break it all down." - The Washington Post • Read hundreds of popular classic books for free • Customize with a variety of themes and fonts • Automatically serialize your own EPUB books (beta) • Sync your reading progress to Goodreads • Sync quotes & notes to Readwise • Easily lookup words in the dictionary & Wikipedia • Earn fun badges and track your reading streaks Plus, with a one-time upgrade: • Read tomorrow's issue early • Sync your reading across multiple devices • Save quotes & notes while reading • Save books to read later • Pause delivery of new issues • Pick specific delivery days and hours for new issues "Serial Reader’s subscription format makes it a little bit more fun to crank through the classics" - Lifehacker "A useful tool that makes it easy in our modern world to make classic books part of your reading diet" - MacStories "A clever system that really does get you reading" - TechRadar Picked as one of Apple's Best New Apps and Best New Updates in 2016, 2018, and 2019. More than 850 books are available with new titles added each week. You can read every book for free in daily issues with Serial Reader! Here's a sampling of some of the most popular books you can read: — Most Popular — • Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen • A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens • The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald • Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky • War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy • Les Misérables - Victor Hugo • The Time Machine - H.G. Wells • The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde • The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway — American Lit — • Moby-Dick - Herman Melville • Little Women - Louisa May Alcott • My Antonia - Willa Cather • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain — Adventure — • The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas • Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson • Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe • The Odyssey - Homer • King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard — Romance — • Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte • Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy • Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare — Science Fiction — • The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne • A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs — Horror — • Dracula - Bram Stoker • The Dunwich Horror - H.P. Lovecraft • Frankenstein - Mary Shelley • The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe • The King in Yellow - Robert W. Chambers • The Wendigo - Algernon Blackwood — Mystery — • The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle • The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie • The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins — Biography — • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass • Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup — Children's — • Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll • The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame • Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery — Fantasy — • The Well at the World's End - William Morris • Time and the Gods - Lord Dunsany • The Wood Beyond the World - William Morris — Philosophy — • The Republic - Plato • Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes • Rights of Man - Thomas Paine — Nonfiction — • Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft • On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin • The Federalist Papers • The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels — Westerns — • Riders of the Purple Sage - Zane Grey • The Virginian - Owen Wister • Gunman's Reckoning - Max Brand — Religion — • King James Bible • The Dhammapada • The Quran Read all of these classic books and hundreds more for free in Serial Reader!
Top Reviews
By Carnemuerte
What a great app!
I’ve only been using Serial Reader for a few days, but I’m hooked! The interface is clean and intuitive, as well as being easy to navigate. The accomplishment badges and words of encouragement are a tad bit cheesy, but they can be toggled off if you like. Overall though, this is a great way to read a book. I started with “The Count of Monte Cristo”, a classic that I’ve been wanting to read for quite some time now, but just haven’t found time to fit into my reading schedule. The notifications come each morning, (you can set them to your own personal preference), to remind me that the next installment of my novel is available. It’s typically a 10-15 minute portion that I can read with my morning coffee. The number of titles is somewhat limited to what, I assume, is in the public domain. But that still amounts to hundreds of the great classics! These books are available through other apps, but I really love the idea of serving it up in daily bite-size portions that don’t take up too much of my day but always leave me wanting more. Kudos to the developer for a great idea. I would certainly recommend this app!
By egreardon
Excellent app
I used Serial Reader several years ago to great enjoyment, but I did not pay as I was a poor, greedy college student. Today I remembered this app and just had to download it. I was worried cheapskates like me would have led to its discontinuance. I am glad to see that it is still around and has even been improved upon. I don’t really do much reading on devices because I like the feel of the book and I don’t like to strain my eyes on the phone screen. However, Serial Reader has an attractive, minimalist design and I find it very easy on the eyes. All around, the app still has a very simple concept and interface which I admire. I appreciate how SR essentially gamifies reading as this keeps me hooked in, and also provokes me to read a section on days when I would not otherwise prioritize reading. It helps that I actually have time to read now that I am no longer a college student—you know, that old irony. Of course, I also have a lot more money, so I paid for the app right away...really, at a mere $2.99, that was a poor excuse in any case considering I was a top-shelf-scotchoholic for at least 3 semesters. Anyhow, I had made it about halfway through War and Peace last time. Cheers to second rounds!
By toujours28
Love this
The app is wonderful. Filled with loads of books that I’ve been meaning to read for ages, it gets me started by breaking them into perfectly digestible pieces. I actually went out and purchased one of the books after reading half on the app, only to regularly return to the app because I enjoy the reading experience so much. Not to mention, the badges full of delightful trivia and offerings of regular cheerleading support make the experience all the more enjoyable. Very well constructed. A joy to use. For what it’s worth, if some day in the future the developer is able to put up more recently published novels that are not in public domain, I would happily pay for the book on the app to be able to read it in pieces he’s divided like this... Just saying!
