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That's the very same picture that accompanied a NYTimes article of a few weeks ago that dealt with Japanese not just reading on their cellphones but actually writing entire novels on them (the verdict being that they read like long text messages). I think this is a terrible development: reading and writing on a screen that small encourages the composition of short sentences and almost no paragraphing, with no real layout even a possibility. In any case, it will lead to a transformation of the printed page that will seriously transform the way we read.
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