Huh?

Did you see this?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9I9UpmWasxY

Is that “small” to you?

I verified that using iPhone on Project Gutenberg files in HTML or Text was disfunctional. However, properly formatted or flowable text should be readable–at least by young whippersnappers with young eyeballs.

The Apple salesman couldn’t tell me anything about potential e-book software coming through the third-party program. Perhaps on July 11 we will learn everything we need to know.

Meanwhile, as a certifiably Old guy, I have to agree that the iPhone text is too small; but I’m hoping that flowable, size-changeable text will be usable, with or without reading glasses or the old hold-it-up-right next-to-your-immensely-nearsighted-eyes trick.

Kindles Rock!

I can easily understand the desire for gadget consolidation, but my Sony Reader fits into my small purse just fine. And, given the choice, I’d rather have a small cell phone in my handbag than a larger, multi-functioned phone. It really comes down to priorities, I suppose, and my reader’s far more beloved than my cell phone.

That said, I’m certainly open to your vision of a future cell phone that incorporates e-ink into its mix. But I gotta tell ya, the purchase price will have to be low because the device will have to chance my perspective on the cell phone. Which is what? That it’s just a basic necessity, no bells and whistles needed.