Many advantages are claimed over the old style learning and teaching aids on which most people are brought up nowadays. It has no wires, no electric circuits to break down. No connection is needed to an electricity power point. It is made entirely without mechanical parts to go wrong or need replacement.
Anyone can use BOOK, even children, and it fits comfortably into the hands. It can be conveniently used in sitting in an armchair by the fire.
How does this revolutionary, unbelievably easy invention work? Basically, BOOK consists only of a large number of paper sheets. These may run to hundreds where BOOK covers a lengthy program of information. Each sheet bears a number in sequence, so that the sheets cannot be used in the wrong order. To make it even easier for the user to keep the sheets in proper order, they are held firmly by a special locking device called a “binding.”
Each sheet of paper represents the user with an information sequence in the form of symbols, which users absorb optically for automatic registration on the brain. When one sheet has been assimilated, a flick of the finger turns it over and further information is found on the other side. By using both sides of each sheet in this way a great economy is affected, thus reducing both the size and cost of BOOK. No buttons need to be pressed to move from one sheet to another, to open or close BOOK, or to start it working.
BOOK may be taken up at any time and used merely by opening it. Instantly it is ready to use. Nothing has to be connected up or switched on. The user may turn at will to any sheet, going backwards or forwards as they please. A sheet is provided near the beginning as a location finder for any required information sequence.
A small accessory, available at trifling extra cost, is the BOOKmark. This enables the user to pick up his program where they left off on the previous learning session. BOOKmark is versatile and may be used in any BOOK.
The initial cost varies with the size and subject matter. Already, a vast range of BOOKs is available, covering every conceivable subject and adjusted to different levels of aptitude. One BOOK, small enough to be held in the hands, may contain an entire learning schedule Once purchased BOOK requires no further cost; no batteries or wires needed, since the motive power, thanks to the ingenious device patented by the makers, is supplied by the brain of the user.
Books may be stored on handy shelves and for ease of reference on the program schedule is normally indicated on the back of the binding.
Altogether, the Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge seems to have great advantages with no drawbacks. We predict a big future for it.