294: Bookstore
Bookcase |
Title text: You can search it if you want, but you may want to skip the memories of your mom. |
Explanation
This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect: I'm pretty sure this is a dig on DRM, and the explanation is pretty much just a summary anyways. If you can address this issue, please edit the page! Thanks. |
The title text suggests that if the security guard wants to do a brain search, he might want to skip over all the sexual encounters Cueball's had with his mom.
Transcript
- [Cueball is standing in a bookstore, looking at a book.]
- Cueball: This book looks interesting. Maybe I'll buy it.
- [Cueball reads the book; a clock appears above showing the passage of time.]
- Cueball: Oops, I read the whole thing.
- Cueball: I'll just quietly put it back and go.
- [Cueball walks through a security scanner to exit the bookstore.]
- BEEP BEEP BEEP
- Voice from off-frame: Hey! Your brain set off the sensor!
- Cueball: I, uhh...
- Voice from off-frame: You have a book in there, don't you!
- Cueball: Crap.
Discussion
I didn't catch any joke about digital copyright. Could you guys just be overthinking it? I mean, all it is as I read it is a joke that they can't catch you if your brain contains the book, only if you possess a copy (physical or digital alike). Hppavilion1 (talk) 17:27, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
- One could consider your memory of the book in your mind's synapses to be an electronic copy (of sorts). 162.158.152.179 16:30, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
The first half of this has happened to me at the library a lot. Like, a LOT.141.101.98.81 17:13, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
This might become a thing in libraries, and if that happens, I am not going to step into the library again since that I read books and store the storyline and plot in my mind. I might set off the alarm like what Cueball did here.Boeing-787lover 07:55, 23 June 2018 (UTC) -- Xkcdreader52 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
I used to do this all the time when I was in school :P Being at school I didn't always have the readies to buy all the books I wanted to read, so I would go stand in the bookshop and read the books right there! As I'm a voracious reader it didn't take me more than an hour or two to finish a book. --The Cat Lady (talk) 16:03, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
- Same! I still love going to my local bookstore and reading the new books in my favourite series so that I don’t need to wait months for everyone else in the public library to finish reading it or buying the book. :) 42.book.addict (talk) 18:36, 2 February 2024 (UTC)