FD is a few days into reading Montaigne’s essays via Daily Lit. It’s not going completely well. When the email with the daily portion arrives, it seems easy to skip over the text, to skim rather than actually read. Perhaps the better approach to reading Montaigne would have been the way FD read Moby Dick and Crime and Punishment years ago. As with Montaigne, those books seemed equally to be something any culturally literate person should read, and at the same time, impossibly boring! So, FD got the most attractive edition possible (with illustrations, nice paper, good sized print etc) and made a firm rule: read just one chapter a day. Now, superficially, that’s similar to the routine that Daily Lit is providing. The email that Daily Lit sends is of nice size type, well displayed and without (as far as FD’s seen so far) typographical mistakes. But the experience isn’t the same. FD thinks that on-line reading is abstract in a way that a book in the hand is not and perhaps that is why it is easier to read less closely and completely in the on-line format.