Serial Reader

M. Schmitt

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About this app

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 every day. Each issue can be read in 20 minutes or less. Read the best classic books in your spare time!

• 850+ popular classic books
• Serialize your own EPUB books
• Customize with a variety of themes and fonts
• Choose when to receive each day's new issue
• Sync your progress to Goodreads
• Lookup words in the dictionary & Wikipedia
• Earn fun badges and track your reading streaks

Plus, with an optional one-time in-app purchase:

• Sync your reading across multiple devices (iOS and Android)
• Highlight text and save notes
• Save books to read later
• Skip ahead to tomorrow's issue today
• Pause delivery of new issues

"For those who are intimidated by thick, leather-bound tomes, Serial Reader is an good way to break it all down." - The Washington Post

"The joy of anticipating the next episode is what keeps us coming back... That's a great feeling to start associating with classic literature" - Mashable

"Serial Reader’s subscription format makes it a little bit more fun to crank through the classics" - Lifehacker

More than 850 books currently available! Here's a preview of the top 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!

Ratings and reviews

Hands down one of my favorite apps! I just bought the lifetime premium after years of using the app consistently. It is such a fun way to read through the classics. It reminds me of watching old TV shows - you were forced to wait for the next issue/episode to wonder what was going to happen next and to reflect on what you'd just consumed.

This app is the best!! I've subscribed to three books and each day I get a section of each one, approx. 7-8 minutes of reading. The font is clear and easy to read. The completely optional $2.99 upgrade is very nice -- a good way to thank the developer -- and it gives several nice features including highlighting text, syncing between devices, and skipping ahead if you're eager! The selection of books is excellent, all the classic favorites and some obscure titles I'm excited to read.

Great selection of classic literature! The serialized format took some getting used to, although it works really well for mobile devices. I would enjoy the ability to organize the serials and pause selections that I'm not currently reading. The text and font options are incredible and I really like the interesting and fun motivational pop-ups that say how many words or pages you've read! Simply the best for anyone who enjoys reading!

What's new

• Potential fix for bug on loading new issues
• Potential fix for bug on loading a book's list of issues
• Extra debugging for tracking down errors