Thread: Read Books on the D.L. at Work

Whether or not you've got any work to do, most employers frown on cracking a book at your desk.

Web site Read at Work is a full-screen Flash application that mimics a Windows desktop and serves up public-domain works in a format that resembles Power Point presentations. Classics by Twain, Fitzgerald, Dickinson, and Tolstoy are all yours to read on company time. (Well, if it's Tolstoy, you might rather just work). To the casual onlooker, Read at Work convincingly looks like a standard Windows XP window. Whether or not your boss will believe that the Oscar Wilde you're reading is actually a Power Point presentation depends on your boss. And it helps if reading PowerPoint presentations is actually part of your job.