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From the first reading · Meditations
“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius · 121–180
How it works
Most reading apps hand you a library and a quiet sense of guilt. classics.email hands you fifteen minutes of a great book, then waits for you.
Engage and the next one is ready the moment you finish. Go quiet and it backs off, two days, then five, then ten, and eventually pauses itself rather than piling up. The work resumes the moment you do, at the exact line you left.
Clean typography in light, sepia, or dark, the type sized to your eyes. Progress and time left stay in view, and you return to the same paragraph you stopped on.
Mark the lines that land and write in the margin. Everything you keep collects in one notebook across every plan you read. Your notes are yours, never shared.
A count of what you've read lately, not a chain you can break. A busy week dents it. It never zeroes out, and nothing here guilts you back.
On the shelf
Each plan is a complete work in 15-minute sittings. More are added over time.
Harvard Classics
366 readings
Meditations
12 readings
Self-Reliance
7 readings
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
31 readings
Uncle Tom's Cabin
45 readings
Together
Your home shows what you've read lately, what's ready next, and a quiet feed of friends' milestones. See when someone finishes a reading and send a bit of kudos. No feeds to perform for, no followers to chase.
The companion
Ask about a word, the history behind a line, or what an idea meant in its day, grounded in the page you're on and careful never to spoil what's ahead. Available as an add-on.
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