Show HN: Daily Read – Receive a chapter a day from popular public domain books
dailyread.xyz
dailyread.xyz
Questions:
0. Which email address should users add to their address book or allow list so that the chances of the emails going to spam are reduced?
1. What time of the day does it send the emails? From other comments it seems like the user can choose, but does it account for time zones that the user would understand easily?
2. Within the email, is the entire chapter embedded in plain text or is it HTML formatted or both (left to the email client to pick)?
3. For works that are originally not in English (like The Count of Monte Cristo), which translation by whom and when is included on your site? Why was that choice made?
4. What is the source of the public domain books on this site?
5. Do you need any financial support (such as donations) or are looking to create paid subscriptions (though the books are public domain, there is a cost to operating this platform)?
0. Emails come from mailer@dailyread.xyz
1. Time zone is determined by the user's browser.
2. Chapter emails are in HTML.
3. Translations are what was available from https://www.gutenberg.org/
4. All from from https://www.gutenberg.org/
5. Hmm, had not really thought too much into this yet. Should be set up to run at a minimal cost, but might add a donation link or something like that if people are interested in making small donations.
I have a google scripts that set up to email myself my personal goals in the morning, and now I want to set up an application to let other people create 'SMART goals' and set up a recurring email similar to how you it set up for Daily Read.
Do you have a blog or some content on how you went about setting this up? I'm stuck on figuring out how to let each user schedule their emails - willing to compensate you for your help! (azum61)
For the "Send time", it probably doesn't matter too much since it is email (as you said). On the flip side, it always seems like these things tend to come through really early in the morning and then get buried under other emails that come in, so wanted to give some flexibility here!
I've been using it for years and they keep adding public domain books.
Are you sending the emails directly from your server, or using some service in between?