Book of books
... She looked for it on e-bay and in tiny second-hand bookstores of Parisian merchants. In any city where she went, she made a small raid on shops, sacrificing even invitations to exclusive shows of new fashion collections.
After the elder brother finally won the race on the Highway, Erica switched to looking for what could give her the key to the “other side”.
Metabiblion. Book of Books.
Olaf said that this was a myth, but he gave a list of the most advanced antique dealers on such things. Grach claimed that an artifact of such a capacity cannot but leave traces and pass unnoticed through hands, but he outlined an approximate functional diagram and components that could be a digital book with a similar set of features. Net4er turned out to be more specific, but his words sounded like a sentence.
“In order to accommodate such a volume of information, existing high-capacity media will suffice. Network entry is not needed here. But what I heard suggests that this thing can change mass without additional transforming and energy modules, and this already smells like a violation of the laws of physics and other alchemy. Or ... "
" Or? "
“The artifact has a direct relationship with the Foundation. The one who made it, perhaps, knows much more than ordinary network tales about “noosphere breakouts” and “avalanche-like traffic”.
»Opening a massive cover, you see four catalog titles - thematic, chronological, author and language. Having chosen one of them, you go to the next page and then everything basically reminds you of working with a media version of some complete works in the format of a pocket electronic book. Find the author and the text and all the other several hundred pages of thin “electronic paper” to be filled with the text of the selected book. Of course, you can switch to hiertext mode and read the explanatory dictionary, go out to critical articles and essays written about this book. In the case of adaptation of the text, you can call up a movie or visualize individual episodes.
Yes, you tell me, all this already exists and anyone can buy the collection of Leo Tolstoy or Tolkien in all available languages, which fit in one pocket.
But the metabiblion is different from other books of this kind. Not only the text of the book is available in it. It can reproduce not only the content, but also the form. Want to read “Gargantua and Pantagruel” in the form in which it was published during Rabelais’s life? No problems. The book will become what it was published eleven centuries ago. Would you like to read the first book printed on Guttenberg's first machine? You are welcome. Do you use the metabiblion as a thick reference during the day, on the way home you want to look through the last detective of some writer now popular? A couple of finger taps in the right place and please read on health ... "
Net4er said collecting data on all editions of the book is a difficult task, but with serious investments it is not so long-term. Reproduction of the texture of old paper is also possible. The latest models of "electronic paper" on thermofilaments allow you to change the texture of the media. But the pocket beech and Ulysses are different masses above all. It is impossible to reassemble a book without nano-installations and mass generators, and such equipment cannot be carried away in your pocket, and you need more energy for such an operation than simply displaying electronic text.
But Tensing said that he held her in his hands and before his eyes she made three transformations. In the last conversation, Aztec mentioned one of the eleven copies of the metabiblion stored in the GK’s “solid” archives. In the end, there is an officially registered deal for two and a half million euros for the purchase of the e-book "metabiblion" at Sotheby's auction.
Of course, by some anonymous author ...
After the elder brother finally won the race on the Highway, Erica switched to looking for what could give her the key to the “other side”.
Metabiblion. Book of Books.
Olaf said that this was a myth, but he gave a list of the most advanced antique dealers on such things. Grach claimed that an artifact of such a capacity cannot but leave traces and pass unnoticed through hands, but he outlined an approximate functional diagram and components that could be a digital book with a similar set of features. Net4er turned out to be more specific, but his words sounded like a sentence.
“In order to accommodate such a volume of information, existing high-capacity media will suffice. Network entry is not needed here. But what I heard suggests that this thing can change mass without additional transforming and energy modules, and this already smells like a violation of the laws of physics and other alchemy. Or ... "
" Or? "
“The artifact has a direct relationship with the Foundation. The one who made it, perhaps, knows much more than ordinary network tales about “noosphere breakouts” and “avalanche-like traffic”.
»Opening a massive cover, you see four catalog titles - thematic, chronological, author and language. Having chosen one of them, you go to the next page and then everything basically reminds you of working with a media version of some complete works in the format of a pocket electronic book. Find the author and the text and all the other several hundred pages of thin “electronic paper” to be filled with the text of the selected book. Of course, you can switch to hiertext mode and read the explanatory dictionary, go out to critical articles and essays written about this book. In the case of adaptation of the text, you can call up a movie or visualize individual episodes.
Yes, you tell me, all this already exists and anyone can buy the collection of Leo Tolstoy or Tolkien in all available languages, which fit in one pocket.
But the metabiblion is different from other books of this kind. Not only the text of the book is available in it. It can reproduce not only the content, but also the form. Want to read “Gargantua and Pantagruel” in the form in which it was published during Rabelais’s life? No problems. The book will become what it was published eleven centuries ago. Would you like to read the first book printed on Guttenberg's first machine? You are welcome. Do you use the metabiblion as a thick reference during the day, on the way home you want to look through the last detective of some writer now popular? A couple of finger taps in the right place and please read on health ... "
Net4er said collecting data on all editions of the book is a difficult task, but with serious investments it is not so long-term. Reproduction of the texture of old paper is also possible. The latest models of "electronic paper" on thermofilaments allow you to change the texture of the media. But the pocket beech and Ulysses are different masses above all. It is impossible to reassemble a book without nano-installations and mass generators, and such equipment cannot be carried away in your pocket, and you need more energy for such an operation than simply displaying electronic text.
But Tensing said that he held her in his hands and before his eyes she made three transformations. In the last conversation, Aztec mentioned one of the eleven copies of the metabiblion stored in the GK’s “solid” archives. In the end, there is an officially registered deal for two and a half million euros for the purchase of the e-book "metabiblion" at Sotheby's auction.
Of course, by some anonymous author ...