Our internet audience continues to grow at a rate of knots. It begs the question: Is there some point in the future where we will no longer need printing presses because we can deliver all the news you want when you want it via the web.
To me, the decisive breakthroughs still required relate to hardware. And we cannot write off the printing press until computers pass the "loo test".
I am deeply suspicious of any man who would dream of spending time on the "throne" without something to read. Newspapers fit the bill perfectly - indeed the demise of the broadsheet has made life even easier, although I still have the pleasure of fighting and folding the Sunday Times into submission every weekend.
But there is NO WAY I am heading to the Smallest Room in the House with my laptop - that's a non-starter.
No. Until they event a computer which I can squash, fold in half and scribble with phone numbers and practice crossword clues, the heritage of Caxton lives on.
Also currently in the Editor's loo library: A guide to Chicago, which I'm visiting later this year; Therese Desqueyroux by Mauriac and a 30-year-old edition of the Penguin Book of Modern Quotations. Favourite quote?...from Thirties Hollywood bon viveur and wild woman Tallulah Bankhead: "I'm pure as the driven slush."
Priceless.
