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Your friends are always drooling all over your precious book collection, begging to let you borrow just one of your sacred tomes. “No, dude. I already told you. The last time I let you borrow a book I found it in your trash can covered in feces.” And he swears that you never let him borrow the book in the first place. We need proof!

The Personal Library Kit provides everything you need to host your own private literature lending service. Date slips, pencils and stamps are included. Sadly, a sassy attitude and sexy black rimmed glasses are not.

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Once upon a time, there were volumes of bound pages which were called books. People use to read these “books” to gain the knowledge of the world, or even just as a quite night in bed. Ever since the dawning of the Internet age, book reading has taken a sudden nose dive, thanks to the instant gratification of RSS and Wikipedia.

Designer Kyle Bean put together a fabrication of what he likes to call “The Future Of Books”, featuring a full laptop within the bound pages of the knowledge of years past. Is this the future of the novel? We wouldn’t go that far just yet, but they sure are pretty damn nifty. (more…)