The Pleasure of Serial Reading

I recently discovered Dracula Daily, a newsletter which sends you individual chapters from Dracula by Bram Stoker in “real time.” As you might remember, Dracula is written as a series of letters, journal entries, newspaper articles and so on, each dated between May 3 and November 10th. The newsletter sends each entry on the date shown.

Besides loving the sheer cleverness of this concept, I’m finding it a novel (hahahah!) way to read. Getting a small piece at a time slows me down, not jus...