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Waterproof publishing has arrived

Bathtub reading, favored affectation of Zooey Glass, finally gets recognition as a for-profit venture. A small New York publisher has patented the waterproof book.

If you’re a tub reader, or if Alice Munro makes you cry, perhaps DuraBook is for you.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 9th, 2005 at 3:36 pm (CT) and is filed under Consumption, Strangeness, Society, Culture. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS feed.

Comments (2)


  1. Pieter Baekeland says:
    August 19th, 2005 at 2:48 pm

    As a matter of fact, I got one, a waterproof one. The title is “aqua erotica”, pubisched in 2000, ISBN 0-609-80656-4. Don’t buy it. If it’s wet you can not read it because of the droplets and if it’s dry, it’s boring to read.


  2. Steven Sande says:
    August 19th, 2005 at 6:37 pm

    See, if it won’t even work in that niche, its prospects are really limited.