It’s commonly thought that the advent of technology has or will signal the demise of the centuries old past-time of reading books.

I beg to differ.

Since Corey was born, I’ve struggled to find the time and inclination to read a book. Indeed, I’ve started reading a book by Janny Wurts lent to me by SBW, but I’ve yet to finish it, despite having started reading it well before Corey was born, and he was 11 months old this week.

Up to now. I have just finished Sue Townsend’s latest Adrian Mole instalment: “Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years”, on my iPhone.

Yes, you read that right. ON my iPhone!

I’ve lusted after an iPad for a while since JBW told me he’d loved reading a book on his. I’m not prepared to fork out for one though as I have a relatively new personal laptop, which does pretty much the same things as an iPad (although perhaps quite as fancily).

I then contemplated buying an Amazon Kindle; considerably cheaper than an iPad.

Imagine my delight then when I discovered that there’s an Amazon Kindle app for the iPhone, and free to boot!

I downloaded it and downloaded a few free classic books, but it wasn’t really doing anything for me.

I was out and about one day and a little bored, so I looked through the Amazon Kindle book catalogue on my iPhone and came across “Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years” for just over £3. I’ve read all the Adrian Mole books released so far and I knew a new one had not long been released and I wanted to read it.

So. I purchased it and downloaded it onto the iPhone. And started reading it. And finished it in less than two weeks! Not bad going for someone who has taken over a year to read an actual book!

Needless to say, I thoroughly enjoyed reading “Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years” on my iPhone. It didn’t take long to get used to it, and the font and size is very similar to a printed book, albeit each “page” is much shorter.

The best thing of all is that it’s so easy to “get out your book” and read as I almost always have my iPhone with me. So if I’m twiddling my thumbs or standing on a tube train, out comes the iPhone and off I go into another world.

Still think that technology is the harbinger of doom for the trusty old book? I certainly don’t.

Time to start reading Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol”, on my iPhone!