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Do You Read On Your Phone?

I do. I began reading on my phone about eight months ago, when my wife Taliya and I purchased two LG G3 smarphones. The 5.5" quad-HD display works just fine for reading. I always figured a phone screen would be too small. I always assumed I'd continue reading ebooks on my Kindle Fire. But after reading ebooks on my phone, which has something like 540 pixels per inch of resolution and looks stunning, I found reading on my Kindle Fire (1st gen) no longer tolerable; the text now appears blurry to me. Funny how I never noticed it before. The Wall Street Journal has a new article examining the rise of the smart phone and its dominance in the world of ebooks. Both Apple and Amazon have noticed an increase in downloads to smartphones and a decline in downloads to tablets and dedicated e-readers. I for one don't want to monkey around with two devices. Reading on the phone is very convenient. I can hold it in one hand and still turn the page. I can read virtually anywhere a

Stephen King "On Writing"

Came across this today. “Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn’t grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story  . . . . to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.”  ―  Stephen King ,  On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft