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appeasingclouds:

A new vending machine has been released which can print any book within minutes.

The Espresso Book Machine has access to 500,000 different books - the same as 23.6 miles of shelf space - and can even churn out a fresh copy of Crime and Punishment in just nine minutes.

Pages are printed at a rate of over 100 per minute and are then pressed, glued and cut to produce a pristine book.

Users simply pick the book they would like on a screen and wait for it to be printed … it certainly is a novel way of getting a new book.

This is amazing.

This is what we need to spread literacy!

WHOAAAA

I would print War and Peace soooo many times. And then just spread them around different places.

My university’s library has one of these. They are ridiculously expensive to purchase, but one can buy a public-domain book from it for $10. One of my textbooks this year was actually printed on it (though sadly I did not get the watch, which was the only reason I even bought the damn book).

I have Plans which involve this marvelous machine…