Well, really. Ever since the Margaret Atwood event last month, reported here under the future of the book, there has been an ongoing debate about a rather odd acid-test for e-readers: yes, but can you read it in the bath? The logical conclusion of this depressingly missing-the-point question has finally been reached, with a controlled experiment designed to answer that question once and for all.
New Yorker Chris Steib has, in the name of science, bravely put the Sony eBook Reader through its paces in his bathroom. Did it, or a traditional paperback, live up to the soggy challenge? Read his blog posting, The Ultimate eBook Experiment: Reading in the Bathtub to find out…
