This week’s Guardian Books cartoon.

@quickbookreviews.bsky.social the solution 💡

and extra points for getting the details of the mechanisms right, which is harder than it looks!

I need one of these in each room

The cloche over the reader’s credit card, library card and bookshop loyalty card cannot stop my cold hard cash at Saturday garage sales. 🙂📚

I have this problem not only with books but also with cheap little puzzle games on Steam. I've got so many uncompleted games that say they only take like 10-30 hours to complete.

Want

What this machine does not prevent is me collecting books libraries are throwing out. I have many ways of acquiring unread books.

Heath Robinson would be proud of you.

Brilliant, can you make it work for Kindle too please?

It'll never work 📚😉📚