http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/09/26/i-guess-i-dont-need-that-laptop-after-all/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:48:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/09/26/i-guess-i-dont-need-that-laptop-after-all/#comment-83110 Book Blog - Likely Stories, by Keir Graff - Booklist Online » Blog Archive » War and Peace and Carpal Tunnel Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:09:13 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2007/09/26/i-guess-i-dont-need-that-laptop-after-all/#comment-83110 [...] And more on the mind-boggling notion of reading books on cell phones. From the Chicago Tribune (”Cell phones’ latest plot twist,” by the delightfully named Stevenson Swanson, if that is his real name): With their small screens, cell phones might not spring to mind as a suitable medium for reading lengthy stretches of text. And a much-ballyhooed e-book revolution during the dot-com era in the late 1990s and early 2000s fizzled, leading many in publishing to doubt whether books would ever escape the bounds of paper. [...] […] And more on the mind-boggling notion of reading books on cell phones. From the Chicago Tribune (”Cell phones’ latest plot twist,” by the delightfully named Stevenson Swanson, if that is his real name): With their small screens, cell phones might not spring to mind as a suitable medium for reading lengthy stretches of text. And a much-ballyhooed e-book revolution during the dot-com era in the late 1990s and early 2000s fizzled, leading many in publishing to doubt whether books would ever escape the bounds of paper. […]

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