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with the advent of the e-book reader and the tablets we've all but lost the noble art of reading in the bath but it's coming back in a big way with this the Kobo aura h2o it's a waterproof ebook reader let's investigate so the h2o has a certification of ip67 which means you can submerge it underwater for up to one meter and for up to 30 minutes it knows when it's underwater and when it has been submerged it will sense that and you'll get this warning on screen which asks you very politely if you wouldn't mind just telling it off waterproofing aside this has a front lit a ink screen for reading in the dark the screen measures six point eight inches with a resolution of 1430 x 1080 pixels and you get four gigabytes of storage space it's also going to last for up to two months on its battery you don't have to wait long before you can start reading in the bath this thing comes out on the October the first worldwide it's going to cost 179 euros 179 dollars or 139 english pounds so this seems like a pretty solid ebook reader with the waterproof feature just being an added bonus so really what's not to like I'm the Westway view cnet's checkout cnet com / Aoife for much more