Read At Work (Without Getting Caught)

Do you wish sometimes you could just read a book at work if bored, and no one would say a thing? Well, now you can, thanks to the launch of the New Zealand Book Council's Read At Work website. They have developed a full-screen site that mirrors the generic Windows desktop, and within the file folders placed below a faux "Trash Can" and "My Computer" icon, you'll find poetry, short stories, and even the novella "Animal Farm" by George Orwell. Each literary piece is presented in fake PowerPoint format, complete with the text organized in bullets, boxes and arrows. The NZ Book Council created the site to promote reading and increased accessibility to books.

Now, I don't really have down time at work lately, and if I do any reading these days, it's primarily industry news which is acceptable workplace reading; plus, I am on a Mac and I use Keynote, so this site would probably attract more attention than mask it (maybe a Mac version is V2?). Nevertheless, the site still made me chuckle, and there are plenty of idlers out there sure to reap the benefits.