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The version we have on the site is actually the Ormsby translation, although it doesn't include the translator's note. The Raffel and Grossman translations are too new to be freely available in the public domain.
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Thanks for the suggestions, emilyyoung! We'll add them to our queue. And we'll see what we can do about Max Weber.
We do have "The Communist Manifesto" and "The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844," if you're interested in those.
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Who doesn't need more time for meditation in their life? We'll add Marcus Aurelius's "Meditations" to our queue.
Thanks for the suggestions. We'll add more Gaskell titles to our production queue.
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Sounds interesting. The book was published this June, and we'll add it to our list of contemporary, copyrighted works that have been requested for the site.
Cresswga is right--unfortunately this isn't yet in the public domain in the United States.
Thanks for the tip. We'll definitely look into it.
Great--so glad to hear you're enjoying it!
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Actually, the book was published in 1974, so it's still protected by copyright. I'm not sure how the full text is available online, but unfortunately we can't include it on DailyLit right away. We'll add it to our list of contemporary works, though.
Great idea--who doesn't like Jeeves? We'll see what we can find to add to our queue.
Unfortunately Watership Down isn't old enough to be in the public domain, but we'll add it to our list of copyrighted works to pursue for the site.
Glad to hear it, imnayda! And sburkett, love the avatar (I have the edition with that cover).
We'll definitely add them to the queue. Thanks!
We'll add these to our production queue. Thanks for the suggestions!
Glad to hear you like it--enjoy!
Definitely--we're actually already working on adding the ability to pay using PayPal.
The Catcher in the Rye is too new to be in the public domain (it was published in 1951), but we'll definitely add it to our list of copyrighted works to pursue for the site.
Oops--thanks for catching this. We've made the correction.
Thanks for pointing this out to us. We'll definitely take a look at it!
Great idea! We'll look into it right away. Thanks!
Thanks for the suggestion. We'll look into adding works by Carl Gustav Jung. Are there other psychologists or works you (or others) would like to see added to the site?
Good suggestions! We're actually already working on numbers 1 and 3, and your second idea is definitely an interesting one. What do others think--would you like to be able to connect with "friends" on DailyLit?
Thanks for the suggestion. We'll add Heidi to our production queue.
Welcome to DailyLit! Thanks for your comment. We actually do benefit from DP because we use Project Gutenberg as the source for our classic works. We'll definitely check it out, though.
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The feature you suggest isn't available right now, but thanks for suggesting it. We're a little wary of adding additional links to our emails--that ups their chances of being categorized as spam--but it's an interesting idea. What do others think? Do you read online or offline? Would this feature be useful to have?
I misspoke in my response--Beau Geste missed the cutoff for the public domain by just one year. Cresswga, the laws that govern copyright in the United States are quite complex. Works that were published before 1923 in the United States are in the public domain in the U.S. Outside of this category (including unpublished works created before 1923) the copyright laws get considerably more complicated, so it's always worth double- (and triple-) checking the copyright status of a work that you believe to be in the public domain. Hope that helps!
This book just missed being included in the public domain--and therefore freely available)--but two years! But, we'll add it to our list of copyrighted works to pursue for the site. Thanks for suggesting it!
We'll definitely add Nicholas Sparks to the list of contemporary authors to pursue for the site. Thanks!
Thanks for the suggestions. We do have quite a few contemporary romance novels on the site, and we're adding new ones every month (twenty more to come on May 1!), so we hope you can find some titles that you enjoy!
I think you might be thinking of the "Southern Victory" or "Timeline-191" series by Harry Turtledove. According to the Wikipedia page on Harry Turtledove, this series of alternate history novels consists of several smaller series and has no official title. But, the Wikipedia page doesn't say "Guns of the South" is part of that series, but rather a stand-alone book. Hope this helps--and if there are any Turtledove fans out there to help clarify, your comments are welcome!
Sorry--I'm not sure what you mean. I just checked with one of my own subscriptions, and I could still go to "manage your subscriptions" (after logging in), click "More" next to the subscription, then click "advanced" to adjust the dates to get installments once per week. Do you mean you're no longer receiving installments at all? Feel free to email support@dailylit.com if it's easier for you to check your email than check the forums. Thanks!
The Lord of the Rings is a copyrighted work (it's too new to be freely available in the public domain), so unfortunately we can't make it available right now. However, it is definitely on our list of contemporary, copyrighted titles to pursue for the site.
Thanks for these suggestions! We'll definitely add them to the production queue. In the meantime, you could check out Thackeray's "Vanity Fair," which is available on the site.
Sorry about this! We had a bug with "Pride and Prejudice" a few weeks ago, and it seems as if the problem hasn't been totally resolved. We're looking into it now and should have it fixed soon!
Unfortunately it doesn't appear that there are any English translations in the public domain. We'll add the German version to our production queue and keep looking for a public domain English translation.
Sorry for the slow response. We may add this feature in the future, but for now, the easiest way to browse the books that are available for free is to look in the "classics" category, since all of the books in that category are free. The free contemporary works we have can be found in the "contemporary" category.
Thanks for pointing this out. We'll work on fixing it right away.
It's not in the public domain--it was published in 1955--but we'll add it to our list of copyrighted works to pursue for the site. Thanks for suggesting it!
Great suggestions! We'll add these works to our production queue.
Thanks for the suggestions. These writers' works are all copyrighted, but we will add them to our list of contemporary works to pursue for the site.
Thanks for the suggestions. These authors are contemporary enough that all of their works are under copyright, but we'll add both writers to our list of copyrighted works to pursue for the site.
Great idea--there are a number of Pimpernel books in the public domain, so we'll add those to our production queue. Thanks!
Thanks for these suggestions. It looks like a few of William Carlos Williams's works might be in the public domain, so we'll try to track those down. Most of his work--and all of Larsen's work--is copyrighted, but we'll definitely add these to our list of contemporary works to pursue for the site.
His works aren't available in the public domain, but we'll add his titles to our list of copyrighted books to pursue for the site.
Unfortunately "Blue Castle" isn't in the public domain, but we'll add it to our list of copyrighted works to pursue for the site. We did recently launch "Anne of Green Gables," and we have a number of other L.M. Montgomery titles in our production list.
Thanks for the suggestions! We'll add Frances Burney's works to our production queue.
Ideas - Comics? - posted 6 months ago
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The Canterbury Tales are now available on DailyLit! Also available is a collection of other works that are or were once attributed to Chaucer.
Thanks for the suggestion. We're definitely happy to add it to our list!
Indeed--there are several translations that are available in the public domain. We'll add it to the queue. Thanks for suggesting this!
Thanks for the suggestions! We'll add them to the list of contemporary works that we're pursuing for the site.
Thanks for the suggestions. 1984 and Sylvia Plath's works are too recent to be available in the public domain, but we'll definitely add these to our list of contemporary works to pursue for the site.
Good news! We are slowly but surely starting to add short summaries of many of the classic works and their authors (see Anna Karenina or Pride and Prejudice for examples).
Thanks for the suggestions! We're always looking for ideas for works to add to the site. Since most of your suggestions are not in the public domain, we will add them to our growing list of contemporary works to pursue. In the meantime, we'll definitely look to add more classic fantasy books to DailyLit.
Too many classics, too little time...We'll definitely add this to the production queue right away!
It took a long time, but "Jo's Boys" and "Little Men" are both now up on DailyLit. Happy reading!
Thanks for the suggestion, robindj. We'll add "Belinda" to our production queue.
Calling all Austen-philes: we now have "Memoir of Jane Austen" by James Edward Austen-Leigh and "Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters" by William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh up on the site. These books offer a wonderful look at the woman behind the beloved works. Enjoy!
DailyLit's version of "Robinson Crusoe" did indeed come from Project Gutenberg. The novel originally had no chapter divisions whatsoever, and the chapters were created at a later date by people other than Defoe. I would guess that the discrepancies you noticed are due to the variations among different editions of the novel. Hope this helps!
Thanks for the suggestion--what a great idea! We'll work on adding to our Austen (and Austen-related) collection.
Thanks for the suggestion. We'll definitely check it out!
We've just added a new feature that will allow you to see what's new on DailyLit more easily. Just click on "Browse Books" at the top of the page, then select browse by "date added," and you'll see what we've been adding by date. Happy browsing!
Thanks for the suggestion. We're hard at work on improving the site, and we're planning to make it easier to see what's new on DailyLit.
We're glad you're enjoying it!
A great suggestion! It looks like only Volume I of "The Faerie Queene" is readily available, so we'll move that into production and keep looking for the remaining books.
Thanks for the suggestion. His work is too recent to be in the public domain, but we'll definitely add him to our list of books and authors to pursue with publishers.
Thanks for the suggestion. His work is too recent to be in the public domain, but we will add these titles to our list of contemporary works that we'd like to get on the site.
I'm happy to report that "Ailsa Paige" is now up on the site. Happy reading!
We're trying to help you out on our end. Was the book you were trying to read "War and Peace"? Did the rejection happen when you were trying to do initial inscription, or on a later installment? Could you let us know the specific error message you encountered?
Thanks for the suggestions. We'll work on finding a version of "Introduction to the Devout Life" as well as other St. Francis de Sales works that we can put on the site.
Thanks for the suggestion. "The Painted Veil" was published in 1925, so it's not yet in the public domain. We do have two other W. Somerset Maugham titles--"Of Human Bondage" and "The Moon and Sixpence."
Thanks for the suggestions. These are all books we hope to add to our growing collection--most of them are already in our queue of books to be processed, and we hope to have them up on the site soon.
We'll add these titles to the queue of books to be processed. Look for them on the site soon!
"Sylvie and Bruno" and "Phantasmagoria and Other Poems" are both up on the site. Happy reading!
Unfortunately there aren't any full English translations of "A Remembrance of Things Past" in the public domain. "Swann's Way," which we do have on the site in English, is the only section that's available in English.
All of those works are not yet in the public domain, but thanks for the suggestion. We're working with publishers to expand our collection, and we'll keep these titles in mind. You might check out "Expanded Universe," also by Robert A. Heinlein. Happy reading!
Thanks for suggesting it. We'll follow up with the publisher and see what might be possible.
Thanks for the suggestion! We'll add these books to our queue of books to be processed.
No need to lurk any longer--"Bulfinch's Mythology" is now up on the site. Happy reading!
Thanks for the suggestion. We've added "Northanger Abbey" to the satire category. Happy reading!
Sorry for the long delay--we are indeed still working on it, and we hope to have this up on the site very soon.
It's taken a long time, but Kafka's "Metamorphosis" is now available on the site. Happy reading!
"Anabasis" is now up on the site. We'll keep working on the rest of the suggested titles. Happy reading!
Etc. - question - posted 9 months ago
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It took a long time, but "Twenty Years After," "The Vicomte de Bragelonne," "Ten Years Later," and "Louise de la Valliere" have all been added to the site. Happy reading!
Etc. - question - posted 9 months ago
Under advanced settings you can increase the length of the installment that is sent to you, but we always send installments not the full book.
We do plan to add other languages eventually, including Russian.
Sorry for the long delay in responding. We've added these to our queue of titles to be processed.
Sorry for the long delay in responding. Thanks for pointing this out to us, and thanks for your suggestion. We'll look into adding more H. Beam Piper titles.
Sorry for the long delay in responding. Tom Clancy's work is under copyright, so for now we can't upload any of his books so the site.
Sorry for the long delay in responding. We'll look into finding an English version of "Remembrance of Things Past."
Yes--C.S. Lewis's work is still copyrighted, but we're compiling a list of "classics" that are still under copyright so we can look into licensing them. We'll add Lewis to our list.
It's taken a long time, but we do now have one Mercedes Lackey title—"Music to My Sorrow." We're happy to have more suggestions, so feel free to let us know which of her works should be top priorities.
Sorry for the long delay in responding. We've added these to our queue of titles to be put up on the site.
Our apologies for the long delay in responding. This is a great suggestion—we'll add as many of her works as we can to our queue for processing.
Sorry for the slow response. These are all great suggestions--we'll add these to the queue of titles to be processed.
Sorry for our delayed response. We'll add this to the list of titles to be processed. Thanks for suggesting it!
Apologies for the slow response. We're happy to add this to the queue of titles to be processed--thanks for the suggestion.
A great suggestion. It's in the public domain, so we will add it to our queue of books to be processed.
Thanks for the suggestion, and sorry for the slow response. We will add it to our queue of books to be processed.
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