Do you have a paper bag to go with this?

It's Saturday night, the night for lovers ... and it happens fifty-two times a year!

Today on Amazon, I noted that the #2 bestseller in the e-books section was 52 Saturday Nights: Heat up your sexlife even more with a year of creative lovemaking . I thought it rather amusing that, for a country where just about anything with nudity can be considered porn, the e-book may be liberating people who wouldn't dare own a print copy but would be willing to discreetly download an electronic copy, rename it to 'business report 2001' and disavow any knowledge of this highly amoral act.

While I shouldn't be surprised at this since porn tends to drive a range of new technologies usually, I am wondering how fast e-book readers and their ability to render graphics will evolve considering porn just isn't all that interesting as black and white pixelated stick figures. I still don't know how useful it will be to take your palm to bed with you, armed with '52 Saturday Nights' to try and spice up your 'sexlife' but at least you won't get caught reading it on the train with a paper bag on the cover to conceal the title.

What would be really cool, instead of some clunky 'e-book reader' etc, would be a device a little thicker than a piece of paper and about 8.5 x 11" in size with a stylus that you could roll it up to carry with you or lay it on your lap or wherever to display magazines, the newspaper, etc all wired to it based on your subscriptions. I don't think I'll ever get rid of my treeware books but it would be nice to have serials, magazines and newspapers available like this to warm up to the idea. It would also be neat to have it use encryption to conceal some things from plain view with a visual encryption where only the person wearing glasses matching the pages' encryption scheme could see the information unencrypted. From boobies to the WSJ... Techno for Porno.