I have finally bid farewell to my much loved old phone. It made telephone calls , took photos and sent messages – but even that was a bit of an effort.
So now I have a smart phone… and am worried that it might just be smarter than me…
My excuse was that I needed it for work – but that’s not really true. It’s all about books
I have a Kindle – which I love. Webmaster John has a Nook reader of which he is equally fond.
We buy books in both formats, which occasionally results in a lending crisis – “But I want to read X and it’s on your Nook!”
Now, my smart phone has both Kindle and Nook apps on it – which means I can read anything. Note that I do not expect this to result in any less borrowing of John’s Nook – it has some really cool games as well.
This swish new phone has it’s drawback – I can’t escape work e-mails. It keeps beeping to draw me back to Twitter and Facebook (aaargghhh)
But – the most important thing is that I am now NEVER without a book.
You know how sometimes you get trapped somewhere – an elevator. The queue at Sainsbury’s. On a train. And you realise with horror that you don’t have anything to read.
Never again!
My phone is always with me (yes – that bit is because of work) and now I have several books loaded onto it. OK – the pages are pretty small, but the important thing is that I will never again find myself on a plane delayed for an hour, with nothing to read – having finished the previous book while waiting (it was not a pretty sight!)
This will never be my primary reading device. But if you have ever been around me when I have nothing to read – you will understand the importance to world peace of this breakthrough.
I love technology.
