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A cheap USB drive sells for under $10 and you can seal a book in plastic so I'd imagine it'd be feasible to just add the $5-$10 to the price of the book. People

A cheap USB drive sells for under $10 and you can seal a book in plastic so I'd imagine it'd be feasible to just add the $5-$10 to the price of the book. People who buy books, especially programming books, generally aren't very price sensitive anyway.

hoherd 3y ago
A book with a usb port on it to download data contained within the book would be so cyberpunk. If we can have potato chips that play music[1], we can have a book with built in storage. 1. https://web.archive.org/web/20190516225905/https://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/tv-film/7775028/doritos-marvel-partner-for-guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-2-promotion?utm_source=twitter https://web.archive.org/web/20190516225905/https://www.billb...
- cyberpunk 3y ago
  It's taking me forever to upgrade all my dead tree books to usb-c, to be fair.
Zobat 3y ago
Can we attach an attack vector to the book cover? Sure. I wouldn't let that USB anywhere near my computer if I'd bought it let alone a library copy of it. I'm with the author on this one. Any code needed to for it be useful should be printed in the book (perhaps complete code in an appendix rather than right there in the chapter). That said I haven't bought a programming book in years.
- marcosdumay 3y ago
  The universal nature of USB is a huge drawback for its usage for storage. But well, the trend has been to consolidate anyway. Now even power comes through an universal interface, so you can't use power outlets in places that you don't trust.