Reading “War and Peace” On My Iphone

Can you truly absorb yourself in literature on a tiny, squinty screen?

“La bataille d’Austerlitz”, by François Gérard, via Wikimedia

Back in 2014, I wrote this essay about reading massive novels on a teensy screen.

It originally ran on BookRiot, but vanished in linkrot a few years ago. So now I’m resuscitating here on Medium: When I reread it, everything I discussed still seems pretty…