Serial Reader: Daily Book Bits 12+

Classic lit, one day at a time

Michael Schmitt

Designed for iPad

    • 4.8 • 201 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Read classic books in daily bite-sized bits! 

Serial Reader helps you fit more reading into your busy life. Choose from more than 900 books — or add your own! — and the app delivers a new issue from the book every day. Build great reading habits and tackle daunting classic books.

Each daily issue can be read in 20 minutes or less, making it easy to fit reading into your spare time! Picked as one of Apple's Best New Apps and Best New App Updates.

"This free app will make you ridiculously well-read in 20 minutes a day" — Mashable

"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
• Large variety of themes & fonts
• Serialize your own EPUB books
• Sync to Goodreads and Readwise
• Lookup words with quick dictionary & Wikipedia access
• Earn fun badges and track your reading streaks

Plus, with the Serial Premium 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
• Custom app icons

"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

More than 900 books available in the app with new titles added each week. Every book is free to read!

A preview of available books:

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

Build great reading habits and finish classic books in days with Serial Reader!

What’s New

Version 4.18

• Patching a few minor bugs

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5
201 Ratings

201 Ratings

Idjster ,

Wonderful!

This is turning out to be a terrific way to read books that I’ve tried to read in the past but that have proven too tedious in their longer form. Having just a small serial portion delivered each day prevents me from getting to that point of tedium and allows me to keep interested and enthusiastic. The experience has been flawless. The serials have arrived each day without any problems. The page colour and font options are varied enough to allow some choice but not large enough to waste time on. Everything seems designed to encourage reading. A marvellous app!

babypotatoh ,

Great app. Love the new “upload your own” feature!

Works well with a good selection, and the new feature of uploading your own ePubs is the cherry on top.

kateroc ,

Awesome way to read the classics!

Love this app! Such a great way to access the classics in easy bite sized chunks, or skip ahead if you’re on a roll! Opened up my reading to other titles and authors I haven’t read before. Love that it syncs with Goodreads and how customizable the app is - you can even change the app icon! Recommend it to anyone who loves to read!

App Privacy

The developer, Michael Schmitt, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Identifiers
  • Usage Data

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.

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