The decisive point for digital reading and e-books might be the mobile phone (Part II)... Thirty andæ —

by stupid77 on 2008-09-11 13:58:08

If you are utilizing very fragmented time, for instance, when you go shopping with your family, when you are in the car during outings, when you are waiting for someone, a vehicle or a flight, or even when you are bored at work, surely you wouldn't carry a book around all day, right? This has already been proven by the success of gaming consoles like PSP and NDS. At such times, taking out your phone to read e-books is the best reading tool, because of the limited subjective conditions of space and time. The only thing you would carry with you all the time is your mobile phone, not a notebook or an e-book reader. It's even more convenient than newspapers or magazines bought from roadside newspaper kiosks. You can always have several books stored on your phone, ready to be read whenever you have some idle time...