links for 2010-03-13

Should you be getting an e-reader for the planet's sake? I'd always thought not, but a new study has made me think again

My commute these days is a bit longer than it used to be, but involves a lot of standing, especially on cramped trains and tubes. That makes it hard to read a book, doubly so if it’s a hardback. So I decided to see what it was like to read a book off a screen.