This week at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, that literary Mecca, over 20 companies will be exhibiting in the e-book section hoping to tempt customers with shiny hardware dootsies with glowy screens and associated software gubbins, all designed to deliver digitalised reading material to the techno-monkeys currently roaming the planet and to extract money from their credit cards at the same time. Some trick! Not content with PCs, laptops, netbooks, phones, PDAs, smartphones, dumbphones, slates (with and without chalk), tablets, schmablets, touchscreens, thoughtscreens, wave-gently-in-your-directionscreens, a sensational new product will be unveiled by Unbound Press which, it is guaranteed, will knock those unholy gadgets into a cocked hat quicker than it takes to exhaust a laptop battery.
"We're bowled over by this new gizmo," said Quentin Boomer, editorial assistant. "It's something we have been working on for quite a long time. It's light, it's portable, it has a genuine touch facility and the battery, if you can ever find the nano-sized thing, lasts an amazing length of time... well, a lifetime, really. We've decided to call it a 'book' and we are convinced that even the most determined of technophobes will find it user-friendly. Try one out," he said, "on http://www.unboundpress.co.uk/ . You'll be delighted with the apps."

