Monday, March 09, 2009

Samuel Pepys blogs
The Diary of Samuel Pepys is being published online as a daily blog as literature enthusiasts take advantage of technology to open up the classics to new audiences.

By Sarah Knapton, writing in The SundayTelegraph, 08 Mar 2009

The book is one of a number of works that are benefiting from the reach of the internet and in particular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
The bite size installments posted online are closer to how many books would have been published originally, through serialised chapters in daily newspapers or magazines.
Matt Poland, writer for online arts magazine Splice Today told a the Sunday Times, "The internet has a fantastic potential to re-present cultural works and figures in a more approachable way.
"It's a simple but brilliant idea. Rather than face down a discouraging brick of a book I read an entry from Pepys a day."
The website also includes weather for the month, currently March 1665. In the latest entry Pepys writes of enjoying a "turne with my wife pleasantly in the garden by moonshine."
Mississippi librarian DeeDee Baldwin has been retelling Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice through updates on Facebook.

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