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Reading ebooks on your cell phone?

I discovered the magic of ebooks sometime last year. Many of the people if proseltyzed to have a hardware hurdle to overcome: no ebook reader. Leave it to the Japanese to solve the problem in typical “no duh” fashion.

Cellphone companies are offering ebook downloads direct to your cell phone.

Heck, everyone has a cell phone. The Houston Chronicle has good coverage of this exploding technology which will soon spread over here. Ebooks on the phone. Yeah, this could be cool…


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This entry was posted on Sunday, March 20th, 2005 at 11:23 am and is filed under trifle. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

One Response to “Reading ebooks on your cell phone?”

  1. Magess Says:
    March 21st, 2005 at 6:28 am

    eBook reader units can be gotten for $100 now… that’s low enough for me to possibly play with once I have a job. They used to be like $300.

    I can’t imagine why you would want to read a book on your cell phone. The screen is an inch square maybe. It’s like the inverse of e-ink. We’re supposed to be making eBooks even more like the real thing, not like text messages. I get the ubiquity aspect, but bleh. I imagine they’ll be as poor an ebook reader as they are a camera.

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