Joe Wikert, creator of the Kindle-obsessed Kindleville Blog, has a confession to make:

My enthusiasm for the Kindle has dramatically shifted to the iPhone. There. I said it. It feels good to come clean. [snip]  I was a skeptic till I got an iPhone a couple of months ago. Even though the book selection is very limited in the AppStore, I’d be hard-pressed to buy a Kindle now that I have an iPhone. In fact, I had been planning to buy the next generation Kindle that’s rumored to appear next year but I doubt I will now.  I still don’t agree with Steve Jobs and his comment that “people don’t read anymore.” But wouldn’t it be ironic if his platform turned out to be the winner in the e-content battle?

Indeed.

This is kind of like Hugh Hefner suddenly realizing that he prefers flat-chested PhD candidates to implant and collagen-swollen bimbos.

I wonder about the effects on reading, and therefore writing, if iPhone-sized devices become the most commonly used e-book readers (and e-books come to be the dominant book form, as I expect they will).  Will “books” be much shorter?  Will paragraphs be shorter?  Will the structure change?  I don’t know the answer, but it will be interesting to see what happens.

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