23 - Leonard Woolf's Kindle

The Upstart Gala is over, and following an unexpected but inevitably temporary rapprochement between Dido Doolittle (Back Room Bookshop) and Malvolio Claxendell (Yifitsin Print Books), a literary gala committee is set up, in order to coordinate the development of literary establishments and services in Gwair. After dealing with sanctions against Kolya (the Infant Genius) for the misuse of his table-top synchrotron, the most urgent issue on the agenda is the application by E-Bargum, retailer of e-readers, who wants to acquire the leasehold on number 26. ‘Well we should at least consider it,’ Malvolio insists.  Dido looks at him in scorn and asks, ‘But what would Virginia Woolf think of e-books?’