If you’re the sort of person who mostly uses their mobile phone for reading books on, or just the sort that wishes they could, here’s something for you.
Developed by a good friend of mine, BookReader allows you to read books, stored as text files, on your mobile phone. What’s intriguing about it, for me, is that it displays the text one word at a time on the screen, so you just stare at the same spot, rather than having to move your eyes to scan the words. What’s doubly intriguing about it is that you can download any of the books from somewhere like The Gutenberg Project and read them whenever you want, or any time when a book is just too bulky a thing to be holding in front of you.
Like when you’re on the train to work, there’s nowhere to sit, you have a coffee in one hand, and a rucksack over one shoulder. Most mornings, in other words.
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