ConnectedLife: Modern Living Show 29

ConnectedLife looks at modern living. We find out how cell phones affect sleep, show you a new way to read your favorite books, and check out Sony’s Full HD. ConnectedLife is living large!

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E-readers:

Reading while commuting has always been a great way to pass the time. And novel-reading on cell phones gained traction in Japan a few years ago when classic novels became available. In fact, popular, serial short novels written out on cell phones as text messages have recently made the jump from simple time-wasters to best-selling books.

The cell phone novel idea still hasn’t really taken hold in North America, but the recent sold-out success of Amazon’s Kindle launch and their purchase of audible.com suggest that E-reading may be coming to North America in a big way. The Kindle, the Sony Reader, the CyBook and other E-readers let users download multiple books and read them on-the-go.

Philip’s ‘Readius’ combines the best of both worlds by acting as a cell phone and an E-reader. The fact that 5 of the top 10 novels in Japan were originally created as cell phone novels suggests that E-readers might become a staple feature in all future mobile devices.