Guest post on Nautical Fiction and mobile view

Inspired by Captain Wentworth's Boating Party, a Persusasion-themed event at vvb32reads, I wrote up a guest post on nautical fiction and my favorite boat-ish books.  I hope you'll stop by and tell me what you think!

Second, I've gone mobile!  (Mobile-view, technically.)  For those of you with smartphones and QR code readers, I present: 
Folks with Blogger blogs can activate mobile view by going to Settings > Email & Mobile and selecting 'Yes' for mobile view.  Smartphone owners can use apps like Google Goggles to read QR codes. 

Comments

  1. SerenaJune 10, 2011 at 5:41 PM

    I wonder if Wordpress has something like this.

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  2. vvb32 readsJune 10, 2011 at 6:57 PM

    interesting. i've been wondering what those symbol were. even saw one for my local starbucks.

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  3. AudraJune 11, 2011 at 10:16 AM

    @Serena -- I just got notification that this was possible only a few days ago, so it's brand new for blogspot. Perhaps WP will follow in a few days? (Or already has it?)

    @Vee -- I know, until I got my Droid phone I had no idea what the QR codes were for -- we just started using them at work and that's the only reason I finally found out!

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  4. AartiJune 11, 2011 at 10:42 AM

    I plan to buy a smart phone TODAY so I shall check out your QR code then :-)

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