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In the somewhat cheesy science fiction book Fallen Angels by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn, one of the gifts to the astronauts still living in space stations at the end is an ebook reader and text of a substantial library of science fiction (which is mostly banned on Earth by then, for some rather implausible reasons described in the book). The space station dwellers are quite enthusiastic about getting something new to read.
These days, you'd think if we had people stuck in space we could ftp them some new books, or arrange for them to access the web, but again, for reasons explained (however implausibly) in the book, that wasn't an option.
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