When I worked in Yellowstone in 2011, my daughters gave me a Kindle to take with me. No way to take the dozens of books I read that first summer. It’s so thin, even in a protective case, & took up very little space in my motorcycle bag. If I want to read in the bath, I enclose it in a ziplock baggie & make sure it’s securely zipped. As for quilting books, I haven’t bought any. If I see one online I think I may like, I look for it in my library. Books I’ve looked through often only have 1 or 2 patterns I want to make, so I won’t buy them. I like to browse online, looking at a variety of quilts & patterns to find one I want to make.