There are a growing number of page per day projects, spawned largely by the Gutenberg project. Last year Phil Gyford started doing Samuel Pepys Diaries, recently Matt Webb has started Leonardo DaVinci's notebooks. This weekend marks the hundredth anniversary of Bloomsday, the day Leopold Bloom walked around Dublin in Joyce's Ulysses. Jason White has now done this for Ulysses.
There are thousands of books in the Gutenberg project, so there must be more out there to turn into this format. Actually, Dickens might be very appropriate to publish in this fashion, as that is how much of it was originally written for newspapers. Not that I'm planning to, as I've got 2-3 other projects fermenting, slowly.
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hey, yes dickens. I was just thinking that as well, as you say they were originally written for reading in installments. There must be plenty like that in the Gutenberg library, journals and travel writtings may make good candidates...
Have you seen Harper's? It's stuffed with bits it originally published in the 1800s - fascinating and eclectic read.
Agree with the Dickens point, too: would be great to read it as it would have been presented.
Just for the sake of completion: I recently put Alice's Adventures in Wonderland online as a RSS version here. Feel free to subscribe if you are bored :)
First time reading this blog, just wanted to say hi.