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What happens when you try to read Moby Dick on your smartphone?

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imageThe new bedside read.'Phone' via www.shutterstock.com

These days, when most of us think of a “book,” we have in mind something around nine inches by six inches, with mass market paperbacks shaving off an inch or two in each dimension.

But digital reading has redefined presuppositions about size and, more importantly, about what format is...

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