lol, the debate rages on! It is good to see so much debate, it means that people are actually starting to consider eBooks as a viable medium instead of something that "may" happen in the future.
Food for Thought: You have to wonder if the monks, who were physically penning books in the middle ages, had such angst and misgivings about the printing press; stating such issues as the loss of personality to books when they are no longer "scribed by hand." Better yet, how about the bards of old who used to tell stories as a living; how many of them were anxious when more people learned to read and their job market diminished.
As to her 3-B's... I think I've probably only taken a few PB's into the bath in my lifetime, and was still troubled by the fact that they were exposed to so much humidity and moisture that I just felt it wasn't right. Don't get me wrong, I love to read but for me a bath is about relaxing for a bit and not coming out all pruned-up. The beach, on the other hand, it a viability, although there isn't one close, I think I'll stick to the 'ol PB on the shelf for hauling to a place of such elemental invasion (the bed's quite safe... most of the time!
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