Studying whereas lounging subsequent to our bodies of water is so fashionable it spawned an entire literary style. However here is the factor about seaside reads: There is a very actual likelihood you will smash the e book if you happen to get it moist.
Two resorts in Key West, Florida, have devised a intelligent resolution to this perennial trip drawback: waterproof books.
The brand new “underwater library” is an aquarium tank stocked with absolutely submerged classics printed on water- and tear-resistant artificial paper made with polypropylene by an organization referred to as Bibliobath.
The lit-filled tank sits between the Gates Lodge and 24 North Lodge, each of that are a part of the Keys Assortment and are positioned in Key West’s New City.
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Authors represented embody William Shakespeare, W.B. Yeats, and Mark Twain—in different phrases, writers whose works have entered the general public area and subsequently require no particular permissions to breed.
Visitors of both property can borrow volumes. And if the e book will get dropped into the pool or unintentionally squirted with a glob of sunscreen or quickly deserted to the weather in a sudden downpour, you will not should return the e book all warped or stained or fanned out like an accordion. It’s going to be nearly as good as new.
(The Keys Assortment)
Perhaps you did not have to spring for that waterproof Kindle in any case.
