Recently in Reading Gadgets Category

Okay, well it had probably already started - I just didn't expect it to appear in my home.

There I was, determined to get into Mohammed Hanif's A Case of Exploding Mangoes when the boyfriend appeared clutching his mobile phone.

"Look at my new book," he said.

"That's a phone dear," I replied patiently.

"Nope," he replied, grinning and throwing the phone in my direction.

And there it was...

I guess it was inevitable but now even our most brilliant literary works are falling under the influence of Twitter.

You've heard of new social network site Twitter right?

The one that allows you 140 characters a time to update your followers - or friends - on your movements.

Now some bright sparks have been tweeting the plots of famous novels in 140 character summaries and I've gathered the best of them together for a test...

I love battered old books.

I wanted to get my hands on the first edition of Ian Fleming's James Bond book Octopussy ... which The Apprentice contestants just about managed to sell in a recent episide of the BBC show.

But I'm happy to settle for my 100-year-old copy of William Shakepeare (I'll never read it all, I'll never act any of it ... but I love it) and the similarly aged copy of Jonathan Swift's works the boyfriend found in a charity shop...