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Thursday, January 04, 2007
Read books on your mobile
A mobile library on your phone indicates Nokia will provide a technology to publish audio books on memory cards.
The memory card approach has also been tried for music in Asia, yet I haven't read about any positive outcomes from that.
Bokilur's approach with streaming of books seems a lot nicer, at least on paper, as you don't have to buy anything physical. Rather you choose what book you want to listen to via the Bokilur application. Of course you are much more relying on network coverage, so if you listen-read while driving, the experience can be a bit choppy. In that case locally stored books is a better approach. Bokilur could though go half-way by caching e.g. a chapter at a time before starting to play it.
The memory card approach has also been tried for music in Asia, yet I haven't read about any positive outcomes from that.
Bokilur's approach with streaming of books seems a lot nicer, at least on paper, as you don't have to buy anything physical. Rather you choose what book you want to listen to via the Bokilur application. Of course you are much more relying on network coverage, so if you listen-read while driving, the experience can be a bit choppy. In that case locally stored books is a better approach. Bokilur could though go half-way by caching e.g. a chapter at a time before starting to play it.
