Reading on the Go: SMS? No – Lord of The Rings

Usually when we talk of mobile content, we mean ringtones, photos and videos. And of course it is not difficult to find plenty of such content online - and searching for it won't take long. But the founders of Wattpad - a project just out of one-month private beta - decided to add… usual text to this list. And that's quite obvious - text is still the most common way of information sharing.

All the texts available at Wattpad are categorized and tagged to facilitate finding relevant content. Besides, Wattpad users can rate and comment texts submitted by other users.

Currently Wattpad supports nine languages: the user interface is still in English but you can browse and read stories in other languages.

To be able to join this brand-new mobile social networking service, you will need to install Wattpad mobile application (available through your cell phone browser at get.wattpad.com). The application is quite user friendly and takes into account all the peculiarities of working with a cell. For example, if you find an interesting text on Wattpad using your PC, you will only need to remember the story's wattcode to access it from your phone later - and it is also possible to send it to yourself (or a friend of yours) via email or SMS right from the site.

But what brings a social networking aspect to Wattpad is that you can upload and share your own stories - and request stories that are not available but you would love to read them. There is a list of requests already - so there's plenty of things to do if you like sharing what people really need.

Sure, we should have expected something like this for mobile social networking: stories for cell phones were not very popular due to the screens that used to be too small to read anything longer than a joke or weather forecast. But the new models of phones now have screens large enough to read real fiction without damaging your eyesight. And Wattpad provides you with noteworthy collection of stories to keep you busy while waiting for a friend in a coffee house.