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Originally Posted by Shane R
How waterproofed are paper books?
Humanity has let centuries pass by - centuries of reading at the beach, on boats, in the kitchen and poolside, without waterproofing dead-tree books.
It's OK if the gadgets aren't either for a while longer.
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In my previous life as a paper book reader, I often dropped books into snow or water and fanned their pages and used a hairdryer even if necessary to dry them. They aren't completely non-functional like an ereader is. Also a paper book doesn't cost that much. You drop one and you can't save it, you're out a few dollars. You drop a $300 ereader in a puddle once, you have no chance of saving it and you're out $300.