An ATM for books...

I'm still catching on the huge pile of "things I should post about while being wildly busy with work and family, etc."...so please bear with me. As should have been mentioned elsewhere (I also have not had time to read my daily blog intake, of late), Fortune Small Business has an article on On Demand Books', Espresso...basically an ATM machine that can:

print, align, mill, glue and bind two books simultaneously in less than seven minutes, including full-color laminated covers.

It has an upper page limit of 550, but can scale text so you could, in theory, print a much larger volume in a really tiny font and have yourself a completely unreadable, but single volume, copy of, say, Sandburg's Lincoln biography.

Expect to see it one in the NY Public Library in Feb., 2007. Interesting option for reading copies of difficult to secure works...we shall see how it rolls out.