Announcing the New Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge Device, Otherwise Known as the BOOK!
It’s a revolutionary breakthrough in technology: no wires, no electric circuits, no batteries, nothing to be connected or switched on. It’s so easy to use even a child can operate it. Just lift its cover. Compact and portable, it can be used anywhere, yet it is powerful enough to hold as much information as a CD-ROM.
Here’s how it works: the product is constructed of sequentially numbered sheets of paper (recyclable), each capable of holding thousands of bits of information. These pages are locked together with a custom-fit device which keeps the sheets in their correct sequence. By using both sides of each sheet, manufacturers are able to cut costs in half.
Each sheet is scanned optically, registering information directly into your brain. A flick of the finger takes you to the next sheet. The product may be taken up at any time and used by merely opening it. The “browse” feature allows you to move instantly to any sheet, and move forward and backward as you wish. Most come with an “index” feature, which pinpoints the exact location of any selected information for instant retrieval.
An optional accessory allows you to open the product to the exact place you left it in a previous session–even if the product has been closed.
Portable, durable and affordable, this product is the entertainment wave of the future!
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So, what’s on your summer reading list? I’m ready to crack some spines.
The books we read should be chosen with great care,
that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,
“The medicines of the soul.”
~ Paxton Hood ~
Oh, and don’t forget: Any book worth banning is a book worth reading. I do love the banned ones the most.
Well said!
I am getting ready to read The Blood of Flowers, The White Plague, The Raw Shark Texts, and the Last Days in no particular order and for no particular reason, other than I have them.
I’m in the middle of “Vibrations” by composer, musician, and all-around hepcat David Amram, myself.
Finishing up “Along the River Road”, about the Louisiana River Road plantations and life on the Mississip between NOLA and Baton Rouge, and Nelson Algren’s “A Walk On The Wild Side”…
Next up on my bookshelves: some stuff by W. Hodding Carter about the Everglades, and another about the history of plumbing.
I highly recommend Bliss Broyard’s “One Drop”, and I always find myself coming back to Vikram Seth’s “A Suitable Boy”, even though it is only slightly shorter than “War and Peace”. And, as for the banned department, go read Lenny Bruce’s “How To Talk Dirty And Influence People”.
You are so fucking brilliant!!! Can you open a school already??? I want my future kids to be in on this awesome viewpoint you have.
I am not, in the least bit, kidding.
Seriously.
Ugh. Open one. Do it. I know it’s selfish… but that’s how I roll. I am a selfish bitch and I adore you.
You have seen this one, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sNGxGekY_I
I got that in email once, and I love it!
Some of my summer reading list: Tuesdays with Morrie, The Chosen, Lord of the Flies (those 3 are mandatory / homework), Twilight, The Rule of Four, and The Book Thief. And I intend to re-read The Witching Hour. I’m sure summer will be over by the time I finish all those, maybe before.
Ooh, the Book Thief was good.