image DailyLit is that nifty service that delivers bite-sized pieces of content to your e-mail in-box, allowing you to read a book on a mobile phone or any other device that’s convenient for you.  I talked about DailyLit’s new Wikipedia service earlier and I tried it for the company’s series on the U.S. Presidents.  It’s a very effective way to learn on the go.

The DailyLit-Kindle possibilities

As I was reading on my Kindle recently, I started to think about how DailyLit and the Kindle could come together.  Wouldn’t it be cool if the DailyLit service could become Kindle-enabled?  It might even be a fairly simple service to implement.

Kindle owners, after all, can convert simple files (e.g., Word doc files) by sending them as an attachment to their @kindle.com e-mail address.  Although DailyLit content is delivered as the body of an e-mail, I’ll bet the company could offer a Kindle option that is sent to my kindle.com e-mail address as an attachment instead.  All I have to do is enable their e-mail address for incoming messages on my Kindle account and let Amazon do the rest.  The content would be automatically converted and wirelessly delivered to my device.

Do I need bite-sized content delivered to my Kindle?  No, but DailyLit has plenty of content you won’t find for the Kindle.  Further, with my earlier DailyLit experiments I found that getting pieces of content every day forced me to read them and keep up, more so than if an entire unread book was staring back at me all the time.  Finally, more content options for the Kindle could only be a good thing for Kindle owners.

Moderator’s tip: Feedbooks reminds us that you can convert DailyLit’s RSS feeds to a Kindle-friendly format via Feed’s service. – D.R.

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