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adele geras

I would never read a book in the bath but elder daughter does ALL THE TIME. She recently passed on Monster in the Box by Ruth Rendell and she'd taken it into a jacuzzi. The pages had all dried into waves and books are only glued together these days so that by the end, pages were coming away in my hands....no, keep books away from water, I say!

Simon (Savidge Reads)

I do and I really really want one of these...

http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/lifestyle-home/bath-caddy/index.html

Cornflower

Oh yes, Simon!

Lizzie

Well, I used to, but tend to shower more now anyway, which is not really conducive to reading! I have dropped at least 2 books in the bath water, with dire, unremediable consequences, and that's another reason not to try it!

Dark Puss

I don't like reading in the bath at all, but perhaps if the young lady in the picture would share hers with me then I might be persuaded!

Harriet

I read in the bath -- it's lovely, I think, even though I've destroyed a few books that way.

Dark Puss

Has anyone read the poems of Anne Szumigalski in her collection "Woman reading in bath" ? Any one living in Saskatchewan can access a special collection of her work .

henrietta

On the very rare occasion that I have time to spare, I do read in the bath. It feels extremly decadent, and I am quite an expert at trickling in extra hot water with my big toe. I do have a towel handy, and only read with dry hands. I've not dunked one yet.........

Fran

I once worked in a house where there was a bath caddy as in Savidge Read's link. I never quite got used to it though I tried- I found you had to sit up too much to be able to read[ I'm very short sighted] and so got rather chilly.
But I do take a book into the bath at times, and have ruined a few, usually because I have fallen asleep with all the warmth and bath oil scents.

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