Monday, May 4, 2009

Book Gadjets

A Book-Vending Machine On Anvil!
living.oneindea.com

An average reader may take several months to complete the copy of "Crime And Punishment." However it will take only nine minutes to print this classic book completely. It’s all owing to Britain’s first "book vending machine." Espresso Book Machine opened for business for the first time on April 27th 2009. It started with a freshly bound edition of Fyodor Dostoevsky's classic. The book is one of more than 400,000 titles that can be printed on demand
at Blackwell bookshop on Charring Cross Road in central London. The firm was uncertain how the 68,000-pound machine – one of only three such printers
in the world – would be used during its three-month trial period.MORE

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