The Book Built To Self-Destruct
5 July 2012
Never quite get round to finishing that book you’ve been meaning to? Still putting off cracking open the Dickens biography you got for Christmas? Recalcitrant readers take note: a publisher in Buenos Aires has created a book written in disappearing ink.
El Libro que No Puede Esperar (The Book That Can’t Wait) comes in a sealed package and as soon as you start to turn its pages, the ink begins to age… and fade. Readers have less than two months to tackle the tome before the text toddles off into the ether.
Read the rest The Independent
Hat tip Meryl Yourish
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Shit. Too slow.
…I think I’d be going over that sucker with a pencil, tracing the words…
If I liked the story, do it in pen later.
As long as I can buy it with disappearing $$$
Hope your power is back on.
Thank you. Yes that’s how I have an internet connection and the computer. And a/c! Our technology is very basic out here in the sticks. I should have said was, shouldn’t I?
So, if you don’t like it, in a few months you at least have a nicely bound journal waiting for you to write in it?
On the other hand, if you do like it and want to loan it out, it’ll be progressing toward eyestrain and unreadability. As a gimmick, it’s quite fetching – sounds like a perfect packaging for a conspiracy thriller or a book on the whitewashing and rewriting of history, as long as there is also a non-fading copy I can purchase and keep.
If people remember, there were several early ebooks with DRM that would allegedly erase the book as you read it.
Shockingly, readers didn’t like it, and programmers quickly cracked it.
Talk about creating a sense of urgency! Yeesh!
Ummmm … dumb.
LOl. This is pretty funny. I’m sure it’s meant as a novelty item – to be given to someone who never finishes their book as a joke…..or someone might buy this to motivate themselves to finish a book they’ve started a million times and never finished.
Or maybe to students, to make sure they do their homework.
Bloody conceptual artists