Never bored again? Dream on...

When abibliophobe meets iPhone something beautiful happens. Could happen. I, a self-confessed sufferer of the fear to not have something to read, had a bit of an Eureka-moment when I realised iPhones can be used as eReaders, and that the number of eBooks available is staggering. One needs to never be bored again! Until one's battery runs out. And that happens fairly soon with an iPhone.

Picture the moments where a supply of eBooks on one’s phone would come in most handy. Say; one gets stuck in an elevator. One visits a friend but he or she is late and can't let one in. One is driving and encounters mechanical problems. These are all situation in which charging a phone might prove a challenge.

There is, theoretically, a solution to this. There’s manual chargers; just rotate away and you breathe life back into your device! I’d bought one, as my car doesn’t have a cigarette lighter, and thus won’t charge my satnav. I unfortunately found out that so much rotation is required to produce the slightest noticeable increase in battery power on the satnav one runs a serious risk of hurting oneself providing it. But would an iPhone need so much less power it would become feasible to manually charge it?

I tried it. The answer is no. There seems not to be such a thing as a free lunch! Another lesson learned…

It could be so beautiful!