
A the last dinner I had, at the very nice Chicago restaurant called The Bourgeois Pig, on Fullerton, everyone in the room I was in was on a computer, iPhone, etc., except me, as I am sure my friends are tired of seeing me show off my "new" new eBook reader, which is a four year old cellphone that does a half decent wifi and doubles as a more than half decent type of an eBook reader. What I did NOT realize at the time was the these people were ALL heavily into eBooks, and when our own conversation had a turn in that directtion it was totally amazing to see all of them get into the conversation, and apparently I have bought a "new" old iPhone, when the person upgrades. So far all of the people I have showed my new phone "reader" to have been surprised at how easy it is to read on it, even people in their 70's who need reading glasses to read books, or anything else. Hence, I now think even more that it is merely a matter of a personal taste issue when some people get so violently up on their soapboxes about how bad it is to read on small screens such as cell phones, even the larger iPhone and clones. My own reader phone is probably not much over 2" by 2" and I am will have to measure to be sure, but certainly not large, though more of it is screen than on most cells, but nothing, nothing at all, like the iPhone. I will continue to experiment, and I do understand margins-- how much they get torn up on the smaller screens, and I have an idea that just scrolling the text by, like ye olde "speed readers" we used in our grade school reading classes back in the 50's. . .just let it flow by and focus on phrases. This should not be a hard thing to program. . . . Meanwhile, my four year old phone cost about $50 and came in with 4 batteries, all working, several chargers, stands, and other assorted accessories. I will admit it's another learning curve without the manual, but it's already amazed any number of people who have asked, and we have surfed the Net with the built in browsers, added Mobi and a few other reader programs, and this olde phone is capable of holding as many books as the newly updated larger capacity of the latest Kindle, and serves fine with wifi and without a subscription to any phone service at all. More later, Thanks!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Inventor of ebooks Recommended Books: Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury: For The Right Brain Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand: For The Left Brain [or both] Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson: To Understand The Internet The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster: Lesson of Life. . . If you ever do not get a prompt response, please resend, then keep resending, I won't mind getting several copies per week.