"My first meeting with the man who would send me on my quest for the Haitian zombi poison occurred on a damp miserable winter's day in late February 1974", that's the first line from one of the books in my own collection and an example of the kind of snippet you can have sent to you twice each day by TwitterLit. The website uses the popular status update service Twitter (it lets you inform your social networking friends as to what your doing at any given moment) to broadcast the first lines from books as chosen by creator Debra Harmel. She doesn't provide you with the title at first, instead offering a link to the book's page on Amazon should you want to investigate it further. You don't need to sign up to Twitter to enjoy her service, she offers her literary broadcasts as RSS feeds too. I'm not sure why she uses a baby chick as her logo, but why not? Oh, and the book I grabbed my snippet from? Wade Davis' The Serpent And The Rainbow.