Advantage paper?

Margaret Atwood at 2007 London Book Fair: “unlike regular books, ebooks cannot be read in the bathtub”. (as seen on Jeff Gomez’ blog Print is Dead)

Here’s Chris Steib taking her at her word, in a brilliantly devised experiment involving cling film and no doubt a decent dose of Mr Matey. Essential reading.

I’m all for Steib’s sentiment, but in the interests of science, maybe should adopt the cunning advanced bath-reader technique of keeping one hand dry to turn the pages and cease from dunking the book into the water. (Can’t say I’ve ever managed it entirely successfully though!)