Thanks for the warning Em..I won't look. Anyway even when I read James's blogs I have very little understanding about what he is writing...but I love his pictures, video linky things and I do think his blog is exciting. Warn him that if anyone used rude words near me -it was a mouth wash with Fairy Liquid...!!
I read in bed..maybe someone could devise a book holder/ opener to help support a book whilst reading in bed. The Needle in the Blood is a fantastic book but rather heavy!
Mumx

//I have to point out that my mum is a retired junior school headmistress, hence the thing about the swears. She never actually did the Fairy Liquid thing - all bark, no bite!//

Reading in the bath is evil. Evil I say! Almost as bad as breaking a book's spine. Or writing in a book's margins. That's evil too. Even opening a book a little too wide is a little too near vandalism to my mind. Of course, living this way means at least two copies of every book are needed. My affliction is near to madness. But at least it isn't evil vandalism!

I have to confess to reading in the bath BUT only magazines or trashy novels that it doesn't matter if I drop them. I have been known to pick up cheap secondhand copies to accompany my 'proper' copies so that I can swap from one to the other when I need to read whilst wallowing and endless topping up the hot water (the joys of a combi boiler!).

Dear Em's mum - i'm so sorry you find Needle too heavy for bedtime reading, but glad you like it. maybe i should embroider you a thing to hold it up with (not sure what though, as i'm not very technical and actually can't sew). with gratitude
the author

ps i used to read in the bath but now my specs steam up so i listen to cricket instead

Wet or dry? Occasionally, I read in the bath, and it's usually a magazine, but let me just say I'm having a number two when I do most of my reading.

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Eeeeww! Too much information there, Christopher!

Because I commute in my car for an hour each way (reverse commute from my home in London to my office in the remote countryside of just outside Cambridge!) I have started listening to a lot of audio books to get through my 'to be read' pile. I have never been much into them before but am finding them really quite enjoyable - I do feel as though I am cheating all of those lovely books out there though!

Ditto Sarah Bower, I love reading in the bath but do suffer from steamy glasses - it's never quite as comfortable as I expect it to be so therefore I'm a bit of a chameleon water baby/sofa lounger reader!

have just discovered to my cost that new yorker magazines quickly turn into papier mache in the bath - even the pages containing new stories by primo levi.
Sarah

Dear Em's Mum

Look no further - go to www.bookpillow.co.uk to give that much-needed support for your bed reading habit. My mother-in-law thinks it is brilliant - and I always agree with everything she says!

Happy reading from an independent bookseller.

Dear Philip
Thank you for the info about the book pillow. It's a really brilliant idea and looks like the solution to my problem. Hope Em reads this and remembers the details around about October(my birthday)! Thanks again.
Em's Mum

Amazon Kindle in a Gallon-sized Ziploc bag works just fine in the bath.

I guess "across the pond" the Kindle is fairly useless but I assume that a Sony Reader in a Ziploc bag would work the same.

I can't say I do most of my reading in any one place since I read a little bit at a time whenever I have time.

Thanks for this post though - a quick Google search turned it up as the only reference to people using e-readers in the bath. I have always thought that the typical "I can't take it in the bath" argument was not really a valid one. With an e-reader in a clear bag, it is still easy to read and turn pages - try that with a dead-tree book...

Anyway, interesting blog - thanks for the good read :-)