xkcd has again turned its attention to e-books. This time, it suggests a potential “fringe benefit” to e-books—bookburning will become a bit more complicated.
(Of course, this particular strip really only works if you don’t think about it too hard, but it’s still pretty funny. Don’t forget to mouse over the image and read the tooltip punchline, which is relevant to a different matter we’ve been discussing on TeleRead lately.)
Fifth panel: The next day, the publisher declared the book to be “hazardous” and it was deleted from everyone’s readers.