You are what your iPhone wears...

It's been about a year since I began reading all my books on the iPhone. Life has changed considerably since then. I no longer need to carry bulky paperbacks during my commutes. I can switch from reading my favorite novel of the moment to the New York Times in three flicks of my thumb. In short, things are a lot more convenient and a big thanks to Steve Jobs for that.

There are several things about the paper book that I miss dearly, however. And one of them is that I no longer have a way to show off what I'm reading to the rest of the world. I mean, I could be reading The Brothers Karamazov and the cute girl sitting opposite me on the train wouldn't have an inkling of how cool I am. That's somewhat of a downer for geeks like me who rely heavily on what we read - and not how we look - to trick members of the opposite sex into relinquishing their phone numbers.

Ah, but there's hope yet. Lately I've found a workaround for this problem, which is to dress up my iPhone with things that (kind of) express something about myself. I have several specific iPhone jackets for this purpose. One is a very geeky Star Wars case and the other is the Tony Tony Chopper iPhone cover pictured center here. I especially love the latter because it's kind of subtle. i.e., you couldn't tell straight off the bat that it's something from Portrait of Pirates. And on top of that the cherry blossoms on the jolly roger have a special significance (which I won't go into here but suffice to say that it's a symbolic prop in a very very touching episode involving Tony Tony and Dr. Hiruruku). So only people who've read the particular episode would know what it's about. It's just like a secret Mason's handshake designed to seek out those initiated into the inner circle of knowledge. Ah... if only there would be more otaku who'd understand...

Well, otaku or not, you're bound to find something you'd like from the selection iPhone jackets we've added recently.