‘The Ultimate eBook Experiment: Reading in the Bathtub’
From Margaret Atwood to Arthur C. Clarke, the same guy who imagined e-book-style devices years ago, writers have complained you can’t do E in the bathtub.
Well, Chris Steib compared P and E experiences—a paper copy of Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 against text as displayed on a Sony Reader. And the winner? The Reader. Details here (via Print Is Dead).
Of course, Steib could try a $100 used Dell Axim (with a backlit screen) in an OtterBox if he’s really dead serious about watery reading amid the steam of a hot bath. I myself recommend Moby Dick as a test book.
May 21st, 2007 at 1:08 pm
You can fit just about any PDA inside a Zip lock bag. Zip the bag - presto! Water tight protection for bath tub reading for just a couple of pennies.
May 25th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Or you could just avoid dropping it in the water. I regularly read in the tub and haven’t dropped a p- or e-book there once in the last 30 years.