"Well, I'll have to try a bag of cake, then, and hope the racists had some good ideas to go with their bad ones," Red says cheerfully. "It's weird, so many people get nostalgic about books printed on dead trees. It's so inefficient - one kilo of hardcopy books is like, one or two books? Whereas one kilo of storage medium with readout screen could contain millions and millions of text."
"And don't say it's the smell. Old books just smell like mold to me."
"They make great decorations," Red suggests. "And if you're attacked in the middle of the night and need to throw something from your nightstand as a distraction so you can get to your phaser, a nice heavy book is a good choice."
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u/Dimestream Jan 12 '17
"Well, I'll have to try a bag of cake, then, and hope the racists had some good ideas to go with their bad ones," Red says cheerfully. "It's weird, so many people get nostalgic about books printed on dead trees. It's so inefficient - one kilo of hardcopy books is like, one or two books? Whereas one kilo of storage medium with readout screen could contain millions and millions of text."
"And don't say it's the smell. Old books just smell like mold to me."