The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Douglas Adams Five Novels in in One outrageous Volume Book 2

Just started this again this week. Having already read book one, the audio version, I wanted to read his other four books in the collection.   I started with book one anyhow for a refresher.  Douglas Adams, as are all good science fiction writers, was prescient in what he wrote.   Also a keen observer of our ape descendant small planet, Douglas Adams was able to make us laugh and recognize ourselves and our leaders in his writings.

As my husband considers the purchase of an e reader of some sort, I came across Douglas Adam's prototype of an e reader and internet  He describes "a device that looked rather like a largish electronic calculator.  This has about a hundred tiny flat press buttons and a screen about four inches square on which any one of a million "pages" could be summoned at a moment's notice.  It looked inanely complicated, and this was one of the reasons why the snug plastic cover it fitted into has the words DON'T PANIC printed on in large friendly letters.  The other reason was that this device was in fact that most remarkable of all books ever to come out of the great publishing corporation of Ursa Minor, The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy."  He goes on to say it had to be published in this form because if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar hitchhiker would require several large buildings to carry it around.

I think Tom should have an e reader so he can carry this and millions of other pages around so he does not need to carry around a few large warehouses. Tom is a wealth of information and is the guy you want on your Trivial Pursuit Team; so maybe he already has several large buildings worth of information in his head and a e reader is just added baggage or as he sees it one more unneeded expense.