Also, I don’t know why this is, but sometimes flight attendants make me turn my Kindle off for takeoff/landing, and sometimes they don’t. Kindle seems to have some kind of liminal device/non device status.

I wish my Kindle was water or coffee proof

Apparently, some say that the sign of a good book is that you can read it in the bath (!?) but the author of the “Digitise or die – a personal reflection” blog quite rightly points out the damage that water can do to a book. She says ‘…won’t printed pages soak or at least dampen, blurring the font and wrinkling the pages? Why might bringing a book into the bath be the test for “good” reading?’.

What really interests me, is how the author and the speaker she is critiquing use this analogy to argue for the primacy of digital and non-digital respectively. For me, the fact that both paper and digital books (e.g. Kindle) can be ruined by water may well debunk the whole analogy, or it may suggest that the divide between the digital and non-digital perhaps isn’t that wide.

I was lucky enough to have an image of a paper I’d ruined accidentally, but I didn’t quite feel the need to soak my Kindle