Cell Phone Novels

OUCH. Leave it to Japan to break technology barriers. Now they have full lengh novel's avaliable on cell phones. Can you even imagine? Reading The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and the Hobbit all on your cell phone? Or having a portable electronic bible? Those ideas might come into reality with the latest in mobile technology.

Down the line could be cliff notes to tests, SAT studying, manuals for electronics, you name it. The limits would have to be on the memory of the phone, but that is always going up. Japanese subscribers have access to 150 downloadable novels, with a current subscription base of 50,000 users. No, don't read too closely to the screen, maybe the affects of reading such small text on a 3" LCD will have long term affects on us readers, but nonetheless, it's an interesting concept in the evergrowing flexiblity in the Mobile phone craze.

-source http://www.canada.com/

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