Oliver Thacker, BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts, UCA Rochester

Outline of story: - Simon is asked to write an essay about Merlin while Mary is out. - Mary leaves a ‘book of knowledge’ on Simon's desk. - Simon opens the book and attempts to find everything he can on Merlin - The book's audio assistant, Ribb, helps Simon search for things. - Slowly, Simon goes off topic, looking up things he sees in the articles. - Soon he is enjoying looking up more and more fun things. Opening an increasing amount of ‘tabs’ (duplicate books) and spreading them over his desk/the floor. - Simon is far off-track now, his searches becoming increasingly more dubious. ‘Popups’ (paper shoots out of the book with the ad on, or ads pop up like a pop up book) start flying into the air shouting/asking for all sorts of things. - Simon tries to close the pop up’s, they duplicate and spread to more ads (like a computer virus), one closes, two more appear. - Ads start to open their own tabs, those tabs open more tabs. Simon can’t control the situation. - Th

This is my idea for a book that's basically the internet. At first I was thinking of it as an internet browser in book form, but then I thought why not include some features of a computer too. Such as needing a password to open it or the mouse wand to navigate through it. Also I really wanted to add a character like the word paperclip, but more like the assistants we have like Alexa or the Google one.

For the new story (and hopefully the last new idea), the character of Simon uses a "book of everything" (basically the internet but as a magical book) to research Merlin. Simon is quickly distracted by all the things within the book and chaos ensues. Outline of story: - Simon is told to research Merlin while Mary goes out. The book containing the information is left on Simon's desk by Mary - Simon heads into the library to use the internet book in order to find everything on Merlin - The book's assistant, Ribb, help Simon search for things - Simon goes off topic, looking up things he sees in the articles (similar way as to how wikipedia lets you go to different pages when you look through a page) - Simon opens more tabs/duplicates the book in order to look at more information - Starts getting popups (paper shoots out of the book with the ad on, or ads literally pop up like a pop up book) - Simon picks up and reads a pop up, it starts to spread m