Book Mobile
Some societies are more receptive than others to technology, but not even the tech-mad Americans are quite as much as the Japanese. Their number one tech-article of choice -- the mobile or cell phone. And since I am working on a longer piece about Japan later this week, when I saw this news wire article, I knew it would be a good preamble.
50,000 available books, including Classics, uploadable to your mobile phone.
It strikes me that that is a great idea for train-bound people, but that simply isn't the case for the US, who are a car-centric society, don't you think?
They say half the readership of the company, Bandai, are women.
Hmm, interesting. I wonder what kinds of books these read in Japan, since though everyone reads manga, it would be curious to know if there's a Japanese Barbara Cartland around.
50,000 available books, including Classics, uploadable to your mobile phone.
It strikes me that that is a great idea for train-bound people, but that simply isn't the case for the US, who are a car-centric society, don't you think?
They say half the readership of the company, Bandai, are women.
Hmm, interesting. I wonder what kinds of books these read in Japan, since though everyone reads manga, it would be curious to know if there's a Japanese Barbara Cartland around.
posted by vbspurs at
3/30/2005 11:59:00 pm
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That was my intent! That was our generation's Book Mobile...and now there is this generation's Book Mobile. ;)
(Note the pronunciation for the first is mobeel at the end, whereas today it's mo-bile, hah)
And since we're showing off bookmobile routes here is ours.
I noticed your Bookmobile stops at Scarborough Town Centre. I wonder if one of those kiddies of yesteryear was Mike Myers. I bet you had to remove him from the "Sound like a Yenta" joke section by force.
Cheers,
V.
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