Literary Clock: Timely Quote

By Mikael Hultgren on AppTrack Ninja.

Classic books tell the time

Open the app at 10:38 and you might get Dickens. In The Old Curiosity Shop, a landlord looks up at the clock and promises the stew will be done "at twenty-two minutes before eleven." A minute later it's someone else, in some other book, telling you it's 10:39. That's the whole idea. Timely Quote is a clock that tells the time with lines from real books. Where the quotes come from Every passage comes from Project Gutenberg, the free library of public-domain books. There are more than 13,000 of them from over 6,000 books, and they aren't all novels. You'll get Jules Verne (Phileas Fogg is, unsu…

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