Read something recently – probably in the FT – about e-books (yes, it was, thinking about it – a review from some big swanky fair in Las Vegas…did Apple unveil something?) and why they might not catch on as fast as some would like. Two reasons were cited, the first being that it’s difficult to get the same layout in an e-book as a newspaper (and I bet they can’t make that fantastic rustling sound in the same way a broadsheet does). And the second reason was that they don’t have the same charm as books. Charm! who would have thought in the germ free antiseptic world of consumer commodity consumption that such a thing might survive?