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The "Daily Digest" is an updated listing of new postings, customized to include only genres you preselect, that is delivered to you by email every morning.  The Daily Digest is a free email subscription feature at PBS; you can subscribe to it (and unsubscribe from it) in your Account Settings.

How to use the Daily Digest:

How to Subscribe

  • Log into PBS, click My Account in the toolbar at the top of any page on the site
  • Click Settings, and on the settings page click the link "Daily Digest" in the yellow bar at the top of the page
  • Set "Daily Digest' to "on"
To unsubscribe, all you need to do is come back here and change this to "off".
  • Select your display preferences:
    • "Include Book Images" (Yes/No)
    • "Sort by" (group by genre and order alphabetically/group and order entire list alphabetically)
  • Then preselect your genres:
    • click to place a checkmark in the box next to any genres/subgenres you would like to include
      • Some genres are huge (eg, Literature&Fiction) and it is wisest to select subgenres in that case
      • You can choose any number of genres/subgenres - but it's best to narrow your choices to those topics that really interest you.  (With thousands of books Posted every day, a nonspecific Daily Digest email would be overwhelming to try to view, and not very useful.)
    • Cick to apply your choices
      • You can return at any time to change these settings
      • If you make alterations later, just click  to apply those changes

Altering your Digest Subscription:

  • Return to the Digest Settings page from the Daily Digest link in the Settings bar as above
  • Click to uncheck genres/subgenres you no longer wish to include
  • Click to check any new genres you wish to include
  • Change the display preferences at the top of the page if you wish
  • Click to apply your changes

Suspending/Unsubscribing from the Daily Digest:

  • Return to the Digest Settings page from the Daily Digest link in the Settings bar as above
  • Choose "Off" at the top of the page
  • Cick
  • This will pause your Digest subscription, while preserving your Genre/Subgenre choices
  • To resume your subscription, just return to this page, choose "On" at the top of the page and click Update Digest Settings again.

Using the Daily Digest

  • When the email arrives in your inbox, click the link in the message body
  • You will be taken to a page on the PBS site customized by you!
    • If you have chosen to view the books by genre, click a genre in the box at the top of the page to view the books in that genre.
    • If you have chosen to view the books alphabetically, they will be displayed alphabetically by title on the page.
  • The Daily Digest is designed to include only currently-available books
    • Because of the (approx. 1 hour) lag in the servers synching up there may be an occasional book that is shown that is not currently availeble (=someone has already requested it, within the last hour). 
    • You can choose to see all of the books posted in the 24 hour period by clicking the link at the top of the page to change the display option