Now that flash memory has grown respectably large it should be possible to work out a way to publish books and manuals to fit into a small pocketable machine much in the manner of the little translating machines devoted only to specific languages and dictionaries. The Kindle has worked out a system to make thousands of books available but it also retains the capability of deleting books which has resulted in angry users who feel deprived of the material they expected. If the books are recorded with not only illustrations but with capabilities for writing personal notes and creating a system for quickly retrieving sections especially useful to the individual user and inserting comments and graphics, perhaps through the use of the USB socket on a computer, the books, like printed books today, would gain a dimension of flexibility that would make the system more useful to the interested reader. Each book would have its own card or USB unit and could be unplugged to permit other material to be inserted and read, and, like any printed book today, would be the absolute property of the purchaser to be lent to friends and associates or stored in a public library for lending. The library versions, of course, would be unmodifiable.

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