A new site called Books in my Phone could prove useful to those of us who don’t want to carry around an expensive e-reader.
All titles are free to download and install on your phone. You can browse the available books by Author or Title; or you can pull up lists of classics through their classification: [...]



Mobile Phone Novels

This article in The Sydney Morning Herald claims that half of the top 10 selling works of fiction in Japan are composed on mobile phones.
Half of Japan’s top-10 selling works of fiction in the first six months of the year were composed the same way - on the tiny handset of a mobile phone. They [...]



Sean at Community Group Therapy writes about his experiences with T-Mobile’s (badly misnamed) Support Service.

It’s a long post, but, fuelled with rage, it passes quickly and is a wonderful example of how to relate traumatic events with no other aids but writing materials and passion.

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i’m on a stationary train in the middle of a field en route to London to see Jessica Lange in The Glass Menagerie. We hit a flock of sheep, which were on the track and one of the diesel tanks was damaged and is leaking. Fingers crossed . . .

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