Toronto Man Thumbs His Way Through a Book

Authors who obstinately use manual typewriters may think they're hardcore, but my new hero for guerilla wordsmithing is Toronto's Robert Bernocco.

The Italian IT worker wrote a 384-page science-fiction novel during his daily commute, using his cell phone. It wasn't a Blackberry or some other thumb-keyboard model, either: Bernocco wrote the entire book in standard Italian using the T9 text-entry system on a Nokia phone. He then downloaded the text to his computer for editing. The novel, Compagni di Viaggo (Fellow Travelers), is now available on Lulu.com.

And you thought you were being productive by working out your grocery list on the train.