Electronic reading has some unexpected advantages (and some disadvantages that is true). Last day by the lake in Södraskog I discovered one, no need to hold the pages against the wind!

Living off-grid, originally uploaded by It’s a mobile world.

I’m out in the Swedish’s countryside enjoying peaceful and sunny holidays. But not even here I can stop thinking about my research.
This days I’ve been experimenting with high-tech living off-grid, using my mobile phone for taking pictures and uploading directly to flickr using 3G and then blogging from it, using the sony ereader in the outdoors instead of carrying a heavy bunch of books, reading my emails and updating facebook in the middle of the forest, and using only solar energy to charge the devices!
How can ICT and mobility help living more sustainable in rural settings? how these technologies can help living off-grid, in places without electricity?

Reading in the sun, originally uploaded by It’s a mobile world.

I’ve owned a sony e-reader for more than half a year now. Keeping the content in electronic format is one of the ideas for a more sustainable lifestyle, and electronic readers can greatly reduce  the paper consumption from newspapers, novels, office documents…
I’ll be posting my experiences with reading without books, the benefits and the problems that need to be solved.
But as a teaser, a picture in bright sun of the reflective e-ink screen compared with a regular LCD screen.