I have Karl Schroeder on my cell phone

[yendi]

Books in my Phone is exactly what it sounds like. Each book is its own self-running and free program that installs on your phone and allows you to read a work that's out of copyright or licensed via Creative Commons. Since Schroeder's Ventus is availably via CC, it was the one I chose to install (you can also find Blindsight, by Peter Watts, as well as works by Cory Doctorow and Lewis Shiner).

Of course, a Samsung M500 is far from the ideal screen for reading a novel, but I like the idea, and if nothing else, this ensures that I've always got Emergency Backup Reading for those times when I forget to bring a book on the bus.

Comments

[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's really cool! And you're right about the emergency book thing. Just yesterday I ended up waiting 20 minutes in the doctor's office to pick up a prescription and I hadn't brought a book because I thought I would just be in and out. I could have used this then.