Re: Weighty Tomes

On 5/5/11 10:02 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
On Wednesday, May 4, 2011 10:33:53 PM UTC-5, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
On 5/4/11 7:03 PM, Paul Arthur wrote:

Well, yes. I read books on my phone, and I have a limited amount of
storage space.


Hm. My phone has something like 16GB of storage on it, which seems
enough for an awful lot of books.

And music, and photos to show people, and software apps, and....

(At least, that's what takes up space on the sd card in mine).

Mine's about half-full with music, the photos are a very small sliver. If I take videos, those will top it out eventually, but once I've taken them I transfer them to my computer and delete them. I have no reason to keep vids on the phone. I've got (counts) four apps, I think there's more space taken up by the photos.

Though I'd definitely never read a book on my phone. The screen's too
small to hold enough readable text to make it reasonable for me. Now, if
I ever get a Kindle or an iPad, that's a different story.

Nearly all my ebook reading has been on phone-size screens (Palm
PDAs, then actual phones). Works excellently for me. Yes, I
have to "turn the page" more often, but turning the page is
essentially instantaneous and doesn't involve feeling around to
get a grip and so forth; just pushing a button that rests under
a finger.

Well, mine's a screen-phone and "turning" is screen-touching. Given that I'd absorb a phone-screen's worth of text in one glance, I'd be constantly messing up how far to go because I'd have to be "turning" it a split second after the text became visible.

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