When you cycle, or hike, and sleep somewhere different every night you can’t carry books around with you – short of having a long line of camels following behind you.
But one of the pleasures of the web age is that you can have some sort of free(-ish) portable entertainment wherever you go. I’ve been reading a BBC feature which I’ve never seen in the UK, and which is packed full of sample-size culture:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/columns/in-the-frame
I particularly like this one: