Bored commuters accustomed to cursing the MTA for shutdown track work finally have something to be thankful for: The agency is now offering free wireless access to classical and modern literature.

The Subway Reads program, which Gov. Cuomo unveiled Sunday, will let straphangers check out five free “e-shorts,” including Lee Child’s “High Heat” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” as well as excerpts from 175 other Penguin Random House selections.

As part of the promotion, the publishing company will also be able to sell its e-books to commuters underground, and the MTA will take a cut of the revenue generated by each book sold.

The new service is available for eight weeks at the 175 underground subway stations that now have wireless connectivity. All 278 underground stations are expected to be Wi-Fi-capable by the end of the year.

Straphangers will be able to tailor their selections to the duration of their ride. A “read time” feature created by the publisher offers estimates of how long each will take to finish.