Cool reader nook android#
If you think the idea of reading an entire book on an iPhone or an Android device seems a little, well, weird, consider this: In Japan, there's a popular genre of "cellphone novels" that are actually written on phones by part-time literati who tap out prose with their thumbs while commuting on trains. According to the Pew survey, 29 percent of the people who read e-books read them on their smartphones, instead of on an e-reader or a tablet computer like the iPad. For the ultimate convenience, what you really need is an e-reader that's more like a cheap paperback.Īnd while you may not realize it, there already is such a miraculous device in fact, you probably have one in your pocket right now. And while e-readers aren't that much bigger than an old-fashioned paperback, they're too big and stiff to fit into your pants or jacket pocket comfortably and tricky to hold onto while you're hanging on a subway strap or standing in line at the supermarket. In contrast to the old-fashioned paperback, which you could get for the price of a pack of gum, the 3G version of one of those slick new Kindle Paperwhites, for example, will cost you $199, in addition to the price of each book you download. But while e-readers have a lot of wonderful advantages - from the big bright pages and sharp adjustable fonts, to the ability to download just about any book in seconds - they've still got some catching up to do with that technological marvel of a previous era, the paperback. A recent Pew Research Center survey revealed that nearly one in five Americans now owns an e-reader device such as a Kindle or a Nook, and it's easy to conclude from that that those gadgets are revolutionizing how we read.
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