You also take something of a risk if you try and read it in the bath.
I estimate that I read up to 30 percent quicker on an e-reader than with a physical book – mainly because the backlit screen is kinder on slower ageing eyes.
You also can read in the dark – on planes without having to switch on your overhead light and in taxis late at night.
Throughout all this I have remained an avid bibliophile and book collector and very often buy the physical as well as e-version for no real purpose at all (I don't know why booksellers still can't work on the buy one, get the other free principle).
It is not just the clumsiness of the Bennett diaries that brings reading and books to mind but the recent Spring Festival Holiday.
While it is a family occasion for most Chinese people, I instead always head off for a beach somewhere and spend the whole week reading. This year I was sunning myself in Cambodia.
I took the Bennett with me (despite the risk of being charged excess baggage) but all my other reading was on my e-reader.
As for Hauser, he is still trying to take this technology further so what you will end up reading is just a flexible plastic sheet.
If he does bring it to market, will I move on yet again or remain wedded to my ancient Kindle? We shall see.
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As a senior correspondent, Andrew Moody has reported not just in China but around the world for China Daily. He has conducted a number of exclusive interviews, including ones recently with former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne in London and the president of Sierra Leone Ernest Bai Koromo in Beijing. He also covered China President Xi Jinping's state visits to both the United Kingdom and to South Africa in 2015.
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