#InstaNovels: the new way to read online

The New York Public Library is aiming to get the younger generation reading by animating their favourite novels on Instagram Stories.

You can tap each page away or hold your thumb to pause the page until you’ve read it.

Alice in Wonderland is the first novel to be posted, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka.

Social Media Presenter Shannon Redstall spoke to Duncan Garner.

Watch the video for the full interview.