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Re:Why 18th century books looked like smartphone screens (2014) by pc86 on Monday December 14, 2015 @12:47PM (#10732504)
> I personally find smartphones completely unusable for any kind of longer text.

Literally two paragraphs after that he notes that historical authors didn't often write anything longer than a magazine article. So it makes sense that you wouldn't read a modern book on a smartphone, but blog posts are no problem.

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Re:Why 18th century books looked like smartphone screens (2014) by bryanlarsen on Monday December 14, 2015 @12:55PM (#10732550)
The article's author read War and Peace, Middlemarch, and Moby Dick on his smartphone.
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Re:Why 18th century books looked like smartphone screens (2014) by drunken-serval on Monday December 14, 2015 @02:35PM (#10733217)
I've read entire novels on a TI-89. That doesn't make it an ideal format.
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