The MTA is encouraging you to do a little reading on your commute.
Subway customers can use smartphones or mobile devices to download free novellas or long excerpts through wireless internet access in underground subway stations.
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The Subway Library, which began Thursday, is a partnership between NYC Subways, Penguin Random House and Transit Wireless. So far, more than 175 underground stations have Wi-Fi, and the remainder of subway stations will have Wi-Fi access by the end of this year.
To access the Subway Library, customers can log on to the free Transit Wireless Wi-Fi. Commuters will have two options, e-shorts or extensive excerpts of full-length books.
Works by Lee Child, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Edgar Allan Poe are included. Customers also can choose reading material based on an expected commute time.
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The program runs for eight weeks.