The Evolution of DustyOnMovies

About a year ago I walked into this little brick building about five miles from my home. The sign on the front read Public Library. When I walked through the doors there were hundreds of shelves full of little rectangular things with interesting titles on them. Naturally I went to the person in charge and asked"What kind of device to I need to play these movies?" She informed that they weren't movies, but books. So I said, "What kind of device do I need to play these books?" To my dismay, the lady shook her head and walked away.

Fine, I thought. I'll just go check them out myself. So I opened the case expecting to find some sort of optical disc, instead there were a bunch of sheets of paper bound together and printed with words. They were sort of like those things that you read while waiting in a doctor's office or while taking a poop, only thicker and with harder words.

So I took one of these "books" to the counter and asked the lady how much it would cost. It was FREE! All I had to do is sign up for a free membership and I could hang on to it for a few weeks. Obviously, this "library" was a life-changing innovation that should have been around years ago.


To get to the point, I've decided to adapt DustyOnMovies to include reviews/thoughts/interviews about these bizarre objects called books. I'd like to change the name of the blog to DustyOnStuff but the current URL is pretty well established. I might, however, add a n' stuff to the end of my logo.

The first of these reviews will be of "Clockwork Phoenix 4" an anthology of bizarre speculative fiction. So you have that to look forward to readers.

During my research I also discovered these books come in electronic formats via digital transfers. I might post about those technological marvels from time-to-time as well.