Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
– P.J. O’Rourke
Always read stuff
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Dang! Does this apply to my ereader, too?
Definitely. You might want to check into putting something reputable on the screensaver.
One of the biggest selling points for e-readers was that you could be reading Fifty Shades … without the other people on the train being able to see the cover. This goes by the board if you are going to worry about what happens when you die. Once you are dead I doubt that you’ll care about such mundane matters, but if you do so now, you need to immediately sanitise you e-book collection, your book shelves and everything on your computers that you don’t want a surviving relative to discover. Probably easier to be open about your guilty pleasures (or to encrypt your collection of dirty photos).