Want to bring along a library of great books wherever you go, from current bestsellers to the classics? To quote Apple’s ubiquitous iPhone slogan, “There’s an app for that.” Without question, the proliferation of smartphones is rapidly changing the way we think about mobile computing—and in the coming months and years, they may very well change the way we think about books.

The word “slut” appears in the first line of Margo Lanagan’s new book, Tender Morsels. The next few paragraphs describe an unsettling sex scene between a witch and a dwarf.

And what’s wrong with that?

Tales from the riverbank could be coming to a canal near you with the opening of a floating bookshop. The Great British waterways has its very own literary outpost in the West Midlands with the launch of The Book Barge.

Books on a boat. Lovely stuff.