HOWTO: Bedside lamp in a hollow book

Here's a great HOWTO for building a bedside lamp in a hollow book. The book's cover is the switch, and the book's designer says he wanted to prove that literature is illuminating.

How To: Not Your Ordinary Book Light. (via Red Ferret)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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Aknaton

Anyone else flash on Dan Hedaya in “The Addams Family”, reading “The Sun Also Rises”?
Anonymous

Brilliant, except for the ADD-inducing video.
Shlepzig

It’s a cute idea, but the hyperbole “literature is illuminating” is a bit much. I would like to add, the literature is removed from the book before it can be turned into a light.

It’s like saying, escargot proves that snails are beautiful creatures.

It’s a nice project, can’t it just be a nice project, and not attempt allegorical aspirations beyond its own merits of craftsmanship and creativity.
- Zadaz
  
  I actually went to the site and read the how to. There’s definitely a tongue planted firmly in cheek there.
  
  A neat project, though it looks harder to turn on and off than a regular lamp, taking two hands and all.