On the subject of reading on cellphones: I (deliberately) have an old, old, vanilla cellphone that I use for... for... What was it for again? Oh yes, for those conversion, er... conventio.. um... communication thingies. It can't do much, but then I didn't do thingies much, so that was OK. Now people are talking, not so much of intermittent communicating and computing on cellphones, but actual industrial strength, continuous READING on cellphones? I can read a computer screen all day without strain, but can someone tell me what kind of cellphone can give you say half a page of print at a time in comfortable size, steadiness, contrast and readable resolution for hours on end? *Is* it viable? I guess memory capacity couldn't be too bad if you have ram for photos, but what about battery capacity etc? Is it time to jack up my standards and look at modern equipment, or can I still represent my anachronistic foot dragging as simple sanity? Will a new cellphone be a better investment than a new, big Kindle with non-volatile screen memory? (I don't have an old, small one yet!) Nervously, Jon
Re: Reading on cell phones: Seems that Amazon agrees with you about where the marketplace is:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=128
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"Amazon's Whispersync technology saves and synchronizes Kindle customers’ bookmarks across Kindle, iPhone and iPod touch, so you always have your reading with you and never lose your place."
So now they know not only which books you buy, but which ones you actually read.
Must be awful, all those travel agencies calling you while you are trying to read "Around the World in 80 Days" on your iPhone ...
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