If you’re like me, you read all day long on your computer — but don’t seem to have enough time to read all the books you want to get to.

Enter DailyLit.com, a new (to us) Web site that delivers bite-sized portions of books via e-mail or RSS on a regular schedule so you can get your reading done in five-minute chunks.

There are a slew of free books — and some paid books — to choose from.  The total library just hit the 1,000 mark.  So far they have 46 books categorized as sci-fi, which isn’t shabby.  There are only three crime and four horror titles now, but I have a hunch those numbers will grow.

Pretty cool.

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National Public Radio had a great interview this week with Charles Ardai, award-winning author and founder of pulp-fiction publisher Hard Case Crime.

Hard Case Crime publishes mass-market paperback crime novels — both all-new stories and reprints of ’40s and ’50s books.

Authors include Golden-Age pulp stars like Erle Stanley Gardner, Donald Hamilton, and Cornell Woolrich.

Stephen King has a Hard Case novel (The Colorado Kid.)

And a new generation of pulpsters are represented — including Ardai, himself, who writes under the pen name Richard Aleas.

Be sure to check out the cover art of the books on the Hard Case Crime site.

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