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The Weekly Inventions of
Dr Splatterjacket

A cup of coffee and a tablet computer are on a desk. There is text on the screen and that text is also coming out of the screen on a piece of paper. There are other pages of paper on the table.

PrintRead

22nd November 2025

While waiting for ASJIOFJNOSDNFNDSUNDS ONGFONKJGNKBUYWENJNCINSIUNDXW to arrive to help me rescue Zargoid 5 from the sudden hole he had fallen into I decided to spend some time on fulfilling some of the many orders of DryBin that have arrived. Having spent 1 minute dealing with that I was bored, yes sure Zargoid 5 was stuck at the bottom of a hole wanting immediate help, but there wasn’t much I could do about that. I realised that if I was bored then Zargoid 5 must be really bored as he hadn’t even had to deal with the one question about the DryBin that had come in which was “Is it really just a bin with a canopy, is that even an actual invention”? Of course it was an invention, and I had dismissed the inquiry immediately.

How was I going to entertain Zargoid 5… and myself. I thought about getting out my extremely heavy Stitch & Story, combination sewing machine and reading system and throwing it to him at the bottom of the mine. However, there would be two problems with that idea… 1) With the extreme weight of the Stitch & Story there would be a good chance that it would kill Zargoid 5 if it landed on him and 2) once I threw the Stitch & Story down the hole I would be bored. It was quite the conundrum until I realised, I could use PrintRead.

Have you ever been reading a book on a computer or tablet and wondered if it would be handy to have a physical version of the book in paper form? Of course you have. That’s why I have invented PrintRead. It allows you to take electronic books and print them out meaning that you can suddenly revel in the future of publishing… books on paper! I grabbed my PrintRead and headed to the side of the sudden hole. I read the book natively on the PrintRead and each time I got to a new page I printed it and dropped the page down the hole.

After about an hour I needed to replenish the paper in the PrintRead so I returned to the lab. When I got there I was surprised to find ASJIOFJNOSDNFNDSUNDS ONGFONKJGNKBUYWENJNCINSIUNDXW. He was very mad at me…

Dr Splatterjacket is standing in his lab next to a very large robot who looks quite mad with him.

…I had wanted to be mad at him and ask him about Dennis, but he immediately seemed to be very cross. I assumed it was because he was blaming me for letting Zargoid 5 fall down a hole, or for failing to rescue him immediately, but no… what he was really cross about was that because I read approximately 20% faster than Zargoid 5 when I had dropped the pages of the book down the hole he had repeatedly been getting spoilers for parts of the story that were about to happen in a few pages time.

I apologised and told him that I should have turned on the advanced spoiler protection version of PrintRead which prints the book out in invisible ink and then only shows the text when you scan the book back into another PrintRead. He agreed that I should really have used that version in this instance and was glad that I agreed.

So, if you want to read a book like somebody living in the future by reading it on paper then get your PrintRead today!

Note to self: The part where the PrintRead ran out of paper was annoying consider making an electronic only version.