Sunday, June 27, 2004

Ulysses: One Page Every Day

I found this via Metafilter. A very interesting idea, that could be adapted by any library for use by a book discussion group. And because it uses a title from Project Gutenberg it's free. Imagine a young readers book club online, discussing the Wizard of Oz or the works of Beatrix Potter--the kids could add their own commentary and illustrations to the text -- think of it as a Literary Fark or Worth1000.
Like the blogger who runs this Ulysses site--I have yet to make it all the way through Joyce's masterpiece (although I greatly enjoyed portrait of an artist). I may just give this a try.
Ulysses: One Page Every Day: "This is one page out of James Joyce's novel Ulysses posted to a website every day. If today's page is 145, tomorrow will be 146. There are also a selection of RSS feeds available that accomplish the same thing. You can start the feed today, or the day that I started, June 16 2004, which happens to be the one hundredth anniversary of the day that Ulysses takes place. In case you need to catch up, the whole text of the book is also available page by page at any time."

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