Serial Reader 12+
Books in Bite-Sized Daily Bits
Michael Schmitt
Designed for iPad
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- 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 in 2016, 2018, and 2019.
"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 4.17
• Fixed: Issues for paused serials still delivered
• Fixed: Rewind Issues action being reversed
Ratings and Reviews
A great reading app
Update! I’ve been using this App a few months now and it’s absolutely brilliant. There’s lots more books available and I’ve even been able to add an unpublished book that my friend has written and asked me to read. It’s a whopping 800+ pages so using Serial Reader is making it a much more manageable process. New books are being added all the time and you can request specific titles if they’re not already available. I’m hoping my request for the entire 7 volumes of Proust is added soon.
I’ve only been using this a week but so far it’s keeping me on track with reading Proust. My only criticism is that it’s not clear how to navigate the app but that could be me! I wanted the option to read ahead of the set schedule so paid the very modest one off fee of £2.99 to upgrade. There’s a limited choice of books at the moment but there are plans to add more.
Fantastic App
I really appreciate this app. There are a wide selection of classics available to read and I often have to stop myself from trying to read more than one serialisation at once! Premium allows you to make a TBR list among other things (read ahead, pause delivery, highlights and annotations, font customisation etc.)
You can set you delivery time for the new issues and set different delivery times for different stories too. The size of each section is well judged too, I can find 7-15 mins each day to read which has got me out of many a reading slump.
Great concept, brilliant execution
Absolutely brilliant! I’ve always wanted to read more classic books and the delivery of a small chunk a day makes this very easy. I highly recommend upgrading to premium; the ability to pause and rewind a book is very useful if you find yourself slipping behind.
A well made app with a fantastic concept, I highly recommend this to anyone wanting to expand their knowledge of classic literature.
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 based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Michael Schmitt
- Size
- 30.5 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humour
- Copyright
- © 2024 Michael Schmitt
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Serial Premium £2.99
- Tip Jar - Essay £1.99
- Tip Jar - Short Story £4.99
- Tip Jar - Novel £9.99
- Tip Jar - Epic £14.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.