Did you ever do this in the pre-smartphones era: find an interesting article on your desktop computer, then print it so you could read it in a leanback chair?

Isn't it interesting how in 2006, until very recently, it was hard, sometimes impossible, to transfer something from the computer on your desk to your phone .. also on the desk.

Sure, the display on a Nokia feature phone was a fraction of the size of a smartphone, but it kind of worked anyway.