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24 alternatives to I built a website that lets you read classic books as email newsletters
Modern Serial delivers classic literature to readers through email newsletters, breaking books into serialized chapters for daily or weekly reading. The platform makes canonical works like those from the public domain… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I built a website that lets you read classic books as email newsletters launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2020 · serialliterature.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, cofounder of Readwise here. We've been working on this cross-platform reader app for about 2 years, excited to finally share it in public beta. Probably the most notable thing that makes Reader unique is that it supports almost any content type you could want to save/read/highlight: * web pages * emails/newsletters * PDFs * ePubs * twitter threads * youtube videos (with transcripts) * RSS feeds With all of your knowledge content in one place, we built powerful reading and highlighting, as well as a bunch of novel triage/organization features, so you can actually…
2022 · readwise.io · its alternatives →
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2017 · bookeyes.co · its alternatives →
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2021 · shepherd.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · dailyread.xyz · its alternatives →
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I T E M S Y▲158Turn your reading lists into a beautiful personal newsletter
2019 · its alternatives →
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Engage your audience in new ways with audio newsletters
2024 · beehiiv.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · notimeforbooks.com · its alternatives →
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Literature in installments delivered to your email inbox.
2020 · serialliterature.com · its alternatives →
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In 2020 I posted this, "Show HN: Read The Count of Monte Cristo and others in your email" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24307752 It got front page for a few hours. I posted in the anniversary of when The Count of Monte Cristo first started to be published in serialized form. To celebrate it, I created a website called "Serial Literature" that allowed you to subscribe and read the book in a similar way, serialized, but in your email. I also added another famous work that was initially published serialized, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. I later added about other…
2021 · confabulists.com · its alternatives →
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I created a site (https://printableclassics.com) that allows you to download classic books and customize things like the font size, page size, and the cover. As part of this, I wrote a software pipeline that takes epubs, html files, or pdfs and converts them into formatted books with custom covers, page numbers, chapter formatting, etc. I used an LLM for categorizing the books. There's a nice way to filter such that you could easily find "Young Adult, Ancient, Fantasy" for example. When downloading from the site, the PDFS are rendered in a work queue. Hopefully the server I'm using…
Feb 2026 · printableclassics.com · its alternatives →
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Analog Reader▲146A bit of context, Analog Reader is a tool I built that takes any RSS feed (Substack, Ghost, etc.) and formats it as a printable newspaper. I've launched analogreader.com here before, now I'm here just to share some updates. I've since created a Chrome Extension that allows you to send any article you are currently looking at to analogreader.com with one click. That way, it's much easier to transform digital into paper. It's a very simple chrome extension, I don't capture any data from you, it literally just appends the current post url to analogreader.com. Let me know if you have any issues…
Jan 2026 · analogreader.com · its alternatives →
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Hi all, creator here :) I launched Shepherd.com on a Show HN in April 2021 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26871660), and it has come a long way. My goal with Shepherd is to create an experience that feels like wandering your local bookstore, along with little notes from authors & experts sharing why each book is one of their all-time favorites. For 2023, I surveyed 1,200+ authors to get their three favorite reads of the year. Then I crunched that data and broke it by genre, age range, and when it was published. Publisher data is a nightmare, so some of the genres are…
2023 · shepherd.com · its alternatives →
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Create beautiful, automated newsletters with content from the sites and apps you love.
2020 · mailbrew.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · closetab.email · its alternatives →
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