Bookish Techie Gifts

State of ye art pop-up technology

Audio Books

"...and this is the library..."

Man uses a television to hold up his book.

"How do I load this book into my computer?"

Being and Nothingness Pop-Up! (book)

A man on a giant book poses as Rodin's The Thinker.

Cook in the cookery section.

"Some Debussy, Igor."

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

Megabyte Information Processing Center.

'They said 'write what you know.' So I didn't write anything.'

Man read's Newton's 'Philosophiae Naturalis Principa Mathematica' and says: 'Blimey Isaac, this is, er, pretty heavy stuff.'

Welcome back students.

'Oh, Wow! You write math books? That's wonderful! Where do you get your ideas?'

"Audacity, noun. Unrestrained impudence. Impudence... Impudence... Impudent, adjective. Marked by impertinent disrespect. Impertinent... Impertinent..."

"This medical dictionary has had it's appendix taken out. . . !"

"Pull over, Rudolph! We'll have to charge the electric sleigh again..."

Scene from an early draft of Moby Dick

"200,000 other people have also highlighted this passage of the E-book, you common idiot."

Sensitivity Reader

"As your first novel, it starts out badly and just falls away!"

Man 'Gogols' the Overcoat.

Have the author sign your kindle...

"Your manuscript is utter trash, of course. How does a half-million first printing sound to you?"

Saul Bellow

The 'I'm Almost Finished With War And Peace' Bookmark

William Blake.

'He's in the library.'

"Curling up with a good book is one thing, but now you're taking a shelfie?"

"I know what the 'e' in 'email' stand for...endless."

Michel De Montaigne is quotes as saying the following...

"I've got about 3 more inches before I'm willing to get reading glasses."

Why are you so hostile toward books? Um, where to start: The waste of paper, the lack of multimedia, the one-way nature of the medium. One-way? Authors stuff ideas down your throat. You can't interact with their ideas. You can't crowdsource the direction, or refine the plot or do anything active. You can't shoot anyone. Shoot? I might play a shooting app called Angry Books if the books you were destroying were cute.

Bookmobile.