Author taps out 384-page book using mobile

by Sean Cooper, posted Jun 24th 2007 at 12:25PM

We're usually pretty proud when we're able to crank out a few emails -- or mediate a discussion gone wrong in the comment section -- on our morning commute. Italian author Robert Burnocco has us trumped in style by actually using T9 and his mobile to cobble together a 384-page book in just 17 weeks. He was inspired to write his mobile opus, Compagni di Viaggio (Travelling companion) on the bus as apparently "In public transport, I realized that my imagination was productive and that the ideas abounded." We aren't sure what the buses are like in Italy, but we are usually just surrounded by lunatics and screaming schoolkids on our morning ride, hardly a top spot for creative endeavors.

[Via textually.org]

Filed under: Handsets, Messaging

Tags: author, book, bus, Culture, T9, writing

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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derX @ Jun 24th 2007 2:29PM

...what, too good for a laptop?

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Glazun @ Jun 24th 2007 4:29PM

I'd imagine using the mobile phone was easier then taking out a laptop on a bus full of lunatics and screaming school children.

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Failedgrace @ Jun 24th 2007 5:06PM

What phone did he use?

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mjrkjm @ Jun 24th 2007 6:36PM

just spent a semester in Rome and travelling around. This is quite the task if he was doing this during rush hour. The people on public transportation in Italy smell sooooo bad and its so crowded, its pretty impressive i must say.

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