Jeff Bezos on e-books, bathtubs and Ziploc bags
Is Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, reading TeleRead or other e-book blogs? Very possibly.
For many months, people here have suggested heavy-duty plastic bags if you want to laze back in the bathtub and enjoy your e-reader.
Now read a snippet from Deborah Solomon’s interview with Bezos for the New York Times.
What do you say to Kindle users who like to read in the bathtub?
I’ll tell you what I do. I take a one-gallon Ziploc bag, and I put my Kindle in my one-gallon Ziploc bag, and it works beautifully. It’s much better than a physical book, because obviously if you put your physical book in a Ziploc bag you can’t turn the pages. But with Kindle, you can just push the buttons.
December 7th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
The plastic bag idea has been around since the first dedicated ebook reader–Rocket eBook, so it’s been around for a number of years.
December 7th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Thanks, Marilyn, but who know how it reached Jeff Bezos
Both TeleRead and MobileRead have had a bunch of references.
David
December 8th, 2009 at 7:05 am
The nice thing about the zip lock back is you can read in the shower too.