Bored at Work? Site Disguises Classic Lit

Readatwork.com lets you fool the boss
By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff
Posted May 30, 2008 2:08 PM CDT
Bored at Work? Site Disguises Classic Lit
A Readatwork.com rendering of George Orwell's 'Animal Farm'   (Readatwork.com)

Business world got you down? Want to escape into a classic poem or short story? The New Zealand Book Council has made a website to help you: ReadatWork.com. The site brings up a fake Windows desktop with folders and PowerPoint files, the Wall Street Journal reports. Click on them, and you get classic literature disguised as a business presentation. (More literature stories.)

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