Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

Re:Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a ... by marai2 on Thursday November 28, 2019 @01:56AM (#21655165)

I actually implemented something like this for my ownself. I have a suggestion that you may want to try out as an experiment. Somehow give the user the ability to choose when to receive the next update (and maybe even how much). So for example I know I'm going to be busy the next couple of days but I want to keep the continuity, so maybe I can schedule to have only a couple of paragraphs sent to me. Or I know I'm going to be bored out of my mind this weekend I can schedule a page sent to me every 4 hours.

In other words if you can add this little gamification aspect and the idea that I have or can have more active control over what's delivered to me, I suspect you'll have better engagement. For me after the novelty of implementing my own a-page-a-day solution wore off and when I missed a few days then it just seemed like a chore to catch up with my missed reading.

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Re:Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a ... by steven_pack on Thursday November 28, 2019 @02:09AM (#21655219)

Thanks for the suggestion! Glad to know I wasn't the only one that a page a day appealed to! If you sign up, the footer of each email does actually have: - Request another page - Manage - Unsubscribe

And under Manage, you can pause, skip ahead or back etc. I decided to hold off on any features until I saw if folks actually enjoyed consuming content this way.

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Re:Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a ... by _threads on Thursday November 28, 2019 @06:01AM (#21656232)

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

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Re:Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a ... by steven_pack on Thursday November 28, 2019 @11:03AM (#21658221)

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?

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Re:Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a ... by vezycash on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @01:47AM (#21700145)

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.

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Re:Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a ... by raleighm on Thursday November 28, 2019 @08:09AM (#21657014)

Can you say more about what you implemented for yourself?

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