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Last night I was catching up on all of the blogs I read. I started contemplating the large amount of time I spend each day in my feed reader - at least a couple of hours. What if I spent that much time reading books? I could probably finish a half dozen to a dozen books every month. Then it occurred to me, why can’t I read a book in my feed reader? If I had a chapter of a book delivered to me via RSS every day, or every other day, I could actually finish all the books I’ve been meaning to read. I searched around a bit to find out if there was a service like this already in existence, but I couldn’t find anything.

This seems like something Amazon, or one of the larger publishers could offer fairly easily. They could set up a virtual library, allow people to subscribe to any book, and choose the frequency for the content to be delivered. People could pay by the book or there could be a monthly subscription fee. Traditional books are great for an occasional relaxing evening or weekend, but I always have my laptop with me. And just about all of my daily research and entertainment takes place on my laptop.

Maybe there’s a reason something like this doesn’t yet exist. Would it be too hard to monetize? Would enough people be interested? Some people may not like only having a small portion of a book delivered at one time because they can’t read ahead. I don’t think this would bother me. I’d probably have the opposite problem of not being able to keep up with the content.

So what do you think? Is something like this reasonable, why or why not? I think publishers could tap into a large market of young, technologically savvy people who already receive their news, entertainment, and other information via RSS.