DailyLit

Dorothy looked, and gave a little cry of fright. There, indeed, just under the corner of the great beam the house rested on, two feet were sticking out, shod in silver shoes with pointed toes.

“Oh, dear! Oh, dear!” cried Dorothy, clasping her hands together in dismay. “The house must have fallen on her. Whatever shall we do?”

Did you know that L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (and the rest of his Oz) books are public domain? I didn’t, until I came across a site (thanks, Wil Wheaton!) called DailyLit. DailyLit has a catalog of hundreds of public domain books, and will e-mail you, for free, a few paragraphs of whichever books you’re interested in, daily or on a schedule of your choosing. Each selection takes less than five minutes to read. It’s a brilliant concept, for those of us who want to read more but can’t ever seem to find the time to sit down with a book.