I’m still managing to watch a book per weekday/evening; uploading the movies is another matter. Without the benefit of an upload client, getting a series of movies corresponding to a 400-page book onto Revver’s server is an …um… ordeal. So I apologize for falling behind in posting the books. I’ll use the weekend to catch up—but next week I may begin blogging each book as soon as I’ve read it, even if I’ve only uploaded the first couple of movies for the book. Anyway, you can always subscribe to a book’s feed and you’ll receive all the parts as they appear!

Stumbled across a beautiful track from The Mountain Goats:

Raskolnikov felt sick
But he couldn’t say why
When he saw his face reflected
In his victim’s twinkling eye.
Some things you’ll do for money
And some you’ll do for fun
But the things you do for love are gonna come back to you one by one.

Of course, Raskolnikov did it for a number of reasons…

Every day, I read a book on my iPod. Or rather, I watch one—that is, watch a video of the book’s words in motion.

All the videos will be posted on this blog, so you can watch a book a day too! Read online or (if you have a video iPod) on the bus or in bed.

Good books ask us to engage with new ideas, which is mentally demanding in its own right. But reading is physically demanding as well. This project arose from my belief that it shouldn’t be.

It takes hundreds of optical jumps (”saccades”) to read a single page of traditional text. This is probably why we refer to “getting through” a book as a kind of achievement. But what if the words came to the reader’s eyes and not vice versa? In other words, what if books could be played like videos, films and songs? Welcome to bliterature.com.

This project is dedicated to everyone who never “got through” War and Peace.