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Not farmville but I enjoy reading on my phone, RSS feeds, kindle books, Instapaper. etc. Short flights espeically in the EU e.g. 1.5 hours to Amsterdam on the w
by rakkhi 16y ago
Not farmville but I enjoy reading on my phone, RSS feeds, kindle books, Instapaper. etc. Short flights espeically in the EU e.g. 1.5 hours to Amsterdam on the weekend in great time to catchup on reading. Missing the takeoff and landing cuts about 30 minutes of reading time.
It sounds selfish and there is enough evidence here that I am now happy to just turn my phone off, maybe I will just print off some of my Instapaper articles :)
- borism 16y agoThere are offline RSS readers, Kindle apps and Instapaper saves can be exported to various formats.
- rakkhi 16y agoIt is all offline, I only read in airplane mode on the phone, I use high contrast mode with medium brightness on the Instapaper app so don't think I really annoy everyone else, but you do get told to turn the phone off even if it is in airplane mode (thus no signal in our out) for takeoff and landing. I just need to go to super offline mode and print stuff out!
- StavrosK 16y agoYou don't have to turn your phone off during the entire takeoff and landing, just when the stewardesses come to check you. Apparently that's the only dangerous part.
- runjake 16y agoI definitely see your point and sympathize (as a busy dad who often gets only 5 minute reading breaks), but even if you aren't gabbing away or noisily typing, most flight environments are dark, and those LCDs leave annoying visual tracers for anyone in your periphery. Can't argue that on a Kindle though :)