Sunday, October 26, 2008

the experience of reading on iPhone

Since I have had this iPhone 3 weeks ago, I have been enjoying reading on it a lot. Most of the things I was reading are:

items in my Google Reader
Chinese novels on website

I read them during breakfast, on bus, before bedtime and even in bathroom ... I'm enjoying this experience of making use of my little spare time here and there. It's like back to childhood, when I was a book addict and squeezing any possible spare time to read novels, comic books.

drawbacks:
The screen is fairly small. So the font on it is small (I don't want to resize the font to the extent where I need to scroll left and right all the time) I feel uncomfortable in eyes after more than 30 min of reading on it. So reading iPhone may be best for making use of little spare time less than 20 min. If you want to read for hours, probably your laptop (or even kindle) is a better choice.

to summarize it a little bit, reading on iphone is:
convenient size + internet access anytime = random reading experience at random time

It's like, use little rocks to fill in a bottle of big rocks, so that the bottle will be more fulfilled.

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