Bill McCloy works at Adobe and writes in his blog about this headline and first paragraph of a Wall Street Journal article:

Gadget Makers Offer Features to Improve ‘Readability’;
‘The Da Vinci Code’ on a Treo
Chris Kwak, a 31-year-old financial analyst, spends hours a day glued to the tiny screen of his Palm Treo hand-held computer. He fires off emails, check stock prices — and recently plowed through the novel ‘The Da Vinci Code’.

So here we have reading an eBook matter-of-factly included, along with emailing and information retrieval, as a basic user behavior (!). While this surely doesn’t track to typical current usage, it’s yet another signal that eReading is, directionally, becoming a mainstream activity.

So this is more evidence accruing that e-reading is mainstream. Shouldn’t Nokia consider e-books as central an activity on the Nokia 770 as, say, Mahjong? The next release should include FBReader as part of the base system, I think.

The previous post in this blog, Let’s re-evaluate the 770’s chances in the market, was written and posted to the itT forums by cobalt and promoted later to the users blog to give it wider exposure. I wanted to make note of that, because Planet Maemo didn’t pick up the line about the different author.

Hopefully many other it Forum contributors will make posts that are also posted to the blog.