Last night Jennifer and I went to see a movie while the kids were staying with their grandma. It was an alright movie (TAKEN), but that’s not the point of this post…
When we got home from the 7:30 show, we weren’t quite ready to head to bed, so we watched NUMB3RS on TV. A good show exploring the idea of AI in a way that only Numb3rs can, but that’s not the point of this post…
As with any TV show, there were a lot of commercials that we were forced to watch over the course of the hour-long program. One of the commercials was for the iPhone, and all its many apps. One of the apps was the Kindle. I immediately made some joke to Jennifer about reading War and Peace on the tiny screen of my iPhone, but my jovial nature is not the point of this post…
The point of this post is that Amazon has a Kindle app available for the iPhone! I guess as I watched the 30 second commercial last night, I didn’t give it a lot of thought, but then this article showed up on my RSS feed. It made me think, especially when I reached the last paragraph where the author quoted himself as stating that the iPhone just may become the “ultimate eBook reader”!
Ok, now I know they say, “don’t knock it till you try it,” but I just can’t imagine reading say, War and Peace on my iPhone. Isn’t the text like really small, or don’t you have to constantly turn the page (because there’s only like 5 words on the screen at a time). I don’t know, I think the iPhone is kinda cool, and I wouldn’t mind getting one to play with, but I can’t picture this. I suppose that if my textbook publisher would make an eBook edition available, I could finally stop yelling at my students to put away their phones…
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I love my iPhone, probably more than is prudent, but I can honestly say it would take a lot for me to use it as an eBook reader. Not only because you could only read about a paragraph at a time, but because it's just not a book. If I'm going to read a book I want to be able to turn pages, and smell the print. Not to mention that "snuggling up with a good eBook." just doesn't have the same ring to it mental as "snuggling up with a good book." does.
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