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I've learned quickly from the more tedious class-assigned readings that page numbers cause serious, unnecessary grief ("oh what crap, 20 more pages..."). I propose heat-sensitive page numbers -- they're a blacked out box to prevent you taking a peek. Hold your thumb over the box for a bit and it'll
reveal itself. Of course, if you want to find a page, you'll have to stick the book in the microwave...
Other variations on this same idea could use electromagnetism (using Xerox's reusable paper technology), or using some kind of intricate shutter system (a switch on the spine of the book -- "on" or "off"?).
Or just make unnumbered editions of books.
I'm sorry if this is too vague -- it's been a while.
Back to reading.
Xerox's reusable paper
http://www2.parc.co...l/projects/gyricon/
[oatcake, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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I dunno. I rely on page numbers to warn me that the author, having spent breathless 450 pages backing his/her protagonists into a tight corner, is going to resort to some tacky deus-ex-machina to pull them out of it in the last 5. |
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I rely on the thickness of the book
to know how much is left, which
makes this idea somewhat
redundant. |
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I do like the idea of hidden passages in the book. |
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I also like the idea of hidden passages in the book. |
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Interesting possibility of reading between the lines; have one set of printing on the page that appears at a temperature that causes another set to disappear. |
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