Datasheets and modern display technology

I appreciate the old databooks very much... but with bound books keeping them open on the bench to the page you want was always a problem. Anything without a good binding fell apart 30 years ago. Even the ones that are well bound (e.g. the hardback TTL books from TI) don't last forever although they were printed by the millions and are still readily found. What I actually like, is having a big 23" or bigger screen at the bench with web access to the datasheets. That's pretty decent. I can zoom the pinout big enough that I can read it from the other side of the bench, or I can open the pinout and the state table simultaneously in two windows. Pretty good, at least as long as I have my glasses on. But the screen still isn't as good as having the datasheet right there on the bench (flat on the bench) a foot or less away from the circuit. I wonder how a Kindle will do on the bench? Anyone drop their soldering iron on a screen yet? The good pages in the databooks always had solder or food or both on them, that made the good pages easier to find! And don't bother lecturing me about not having food and solder in the same place. We all grew up with solder when we were kids, and everyone knows that WE'RE PERFECTLY NORMAL now that we're adults! Tim.