Well, check it out: sitting in Norway it costs me about the same in both time and money to ship books from the States or the UK, though obviously the States is further - perhaps it's not really that weird to ask students to get the book from amazon.co.uk or one of the many other online bookstores in the UK?

Btw, can an American college bookstore really not get UK editions of books? I hadn't thought of that: perhaps an advantage of living out here on the edge of the map is that we can two-time the powers that be. We ALWAYS have to order books from overseas, you know?

Well, maybe so. To be honest I haven't looked into what it would take. Of course first I have to read it myself. You know the old line: "Read it yet?! I haven't even taught it!"

« Even more interesting is the fact that the book works if you ignore the instructions and simply read it from cover to cover » - sounds like _Hopscotch_ from Cortazar (_Rayuela_, 1963...). You can also look at _253_, from Geoff Ryman (other way to apply hypertext/link process to a "IRL" book).

But I must admit - Newman seems to have pushed the idea one step further...