Italian writes novel on mobile phone

Writing a novel is a heavy task. Writing a novel using only your cell phone as an input device must be maddening. That's precisely what one Italian man did, and he lived to tell the tale.

From Betanews, "Bernocco, who wrote in his native Italian, utilized the phone's T9 predictive text input designed by Tegic and formerly owned by AOL. He did not use shorthand and transferred the text to his computer only for proofreading. It took Bernocco 17 weeks to complete the novel, working mostly while commuting to and from work on the train."

No word on the condition of his thumbs. The book, "Fellow Travelers" is supposed to be available at LuLu.com, but we were unable to locate it.

Tags: novels, novelty