Heavy tomes now make lighter reading

Books are rubbish! Not my view but that of the multimillionaire Austrian-born entrepreneur and scientist Hermann Hauser, a pioneer of the e-reader, who actually used a more vulgar description of German origin.

When he made the remark in an interview I did with him in Cambridge, England, more than a decade ago, I didn't know quite what he meant.

I actually thought the physical book was quite an efficient tool you could take just about everywhere.